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Book SynopsisWater Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.
Trade ReviewIn this pathbreaking tour de force, Professor Walter Block of Loyola University, New Orleans, and Peter Nelson, an engineer out of Colorado specializing in water resources, lay down the case for full-throttle Water Capitalism. In free-flowing, inter-disciplinary form our authors provide a jam-packed foundation (and I do mean jam-packed; the bibliography alone is 35 pages long) for future advocacy of free markets in all things aqua…. In sum, Water Capitalism is a breath of fresh air in the stagnant atmosphere of watered down quasi-defenses of aquacapitalism. Indeed, a beefy appendix is dedicated to smashing the various ‘free market environmentalist’ academic and policy proposals that have preceded Water Capitalism. This section will be of utmost interest to the more scholarly inclined segment of our author’s audience. Nonetheless, an inquisitive reader passionate about a free and prosperous future will find an intellectual adventure well worth setting sail for in this invaluable contribution. * San Francisco Review of Books *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Privatize the Oceans and All Other Bodies of Water Chapter 2 Why Privatize Anything? Chapter 3 Why Privatize Bodies of Water? Chapter 4 Aquatic Ownership Concepts Chapter 5 The Process of Privatization Homesteading, Abandonment Chapter 6 Existing Law Governing the Seas Chapter 7 Oceans—Concepts of Oceanological Ownership Chapter 8 Rivers—Concepts of Potamological Ownership Chapter 9 Lakes—Concepts of Limnological Ownership Chapter 10 Aquifers—Concepts of Hydrogeological Ownership Chapter 11 Mainstream Views on Ocean Management Chapter 12 Piracy Chapter 13 Case Studies Chapter 14 Debate—Technological Viewpoints that Inform Homesteading, Technological Units
