even if you more or less agree with him

可还是有些地方不敢苟同
you will find many things to argue with him about

大家可以在书中找到很多值得商榷的地方
and that will be an important book in the course.

这本书将会这门课中的重点
The Mystery of Capital

赫南多·德索托写的
by Hernando DeSoto is an argument about

《资本的神秘性》主要讲的是
why the less developed countries in the world are less developed,

为什么世界上较不发达国家会相对较落后
and the gist of it is that

这本书主要认为
formal and enforceable property rights are

正式可行的产权是
a precondition to capital development.

资本开发的先决条件
It's a very powerful piece of work.

这本影响力很大
Richard Posner, The Failure of Capitalism,

理查德·波斯纳写的《资本主义的失败》
Posner--anybody know who Posner is?

波斯纳有人知道这个人吗