Water Capitalism by Walter E Block
Water 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.
In 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 CapitalismIn 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 *
Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and professor of economics in the College of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
Peter Lothian Nelson is former president of PLN Engineering and a professional engineer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781498518826 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498518826 |
| Title | Water Capitalism |
| Author | Walter E Block |
| Series | Capitalist Thought: Studies In Philosophy Politics And Economics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Year published | 2016-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 338 |
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