And anywhere you go in the country you will find inventors and businesses that created products that are now sent all around the world.

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It's the uncertainty you've created by launching two essentially equal but incompatible formats onto the world of consumer electronics.

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De Soto makes the point that if you look at squatters and shantytowns surrounding numerous Third World cities, you will find the people who live there have created rules about property.

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"When you create a world as huge as the one she has created, I don't know how you can keep all that in your head, " Mr. Ball said.

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