De Soto Documentary and Blog Contest

Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok notes an upcoming PBS documentary featuring Hernando de Soto, whose ideas are of great interest to many PropertyProfs.  Free To Choose Media is sponsoring a contest tied to the documentary for a blog post of under 500 words that best addresses the following question:  What institutions can enable the world’s poor to realize their power and achieve prosperity?  My guess is that the desired answer is "property".  I doubt that I'll write a post for the contest, but if you're a PropertyProf and want to take part, I'd by happy to let you post an entry here.

Ben Barros

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