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Water Capitalism The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers

Block Walter E. Nelson Peter L.
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781498518802
Publisert
2015-10-30
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
581 gr
Høyde
237 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Innbundet
Antall sider
302

Forfatter
Block Walter E.
Nelson Peter L.

Biografisk notat

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.

Water Capitalism The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers

Block Walter E. Nelson Peter L.
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
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I'm going to recommend your book, of course, to listeners. I don’t think you’re going to find another book on water body privatization. I think I can say that with a degree of confidence. But this book, which Walter Block and his co-author have just released . . . is the place to go to get a lot of very important food for thought.

The Tom Woods Show

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 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

Walter Block is a famous champion of property rights, and his book with Peter Nelson makes the case for private oceans, rivers, lakes, and acquifers in compelling and convincing fashion. It could also not be more timely. Water Capitalism indeed!

- Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Mises Institute,

Se alle

In this provocative new book Walter Block and Peter Nelson thoroughly and eloquently discuss the idea of privatizing the oceans and all other bodies of water. Included in this well-researched volume are in-depth treatments of the entire spectrum of aquatic ownership concepts as well as an enlightening description of a potential aquatic privatization homesteading process. This well-written and easy-to-read treatise persuasively challenges assumptions and ideas held by people throughout the ages.

- Edward W. Younkins,

Water covers some 75% of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25%, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1% of world GDP, the latter 99% plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are more people located on land than water. But a more important explanation is that while land is privately owned, water is unowned (with the exception of a few small lakes and ponds), or governmentally owned (rivers, large lakes). This gives rise to the tragedy of the commons: when something is unowned, people have less of an incentive to care for it, preserve it, and protect it, than when they own it. As a result we have oil spills, depletion of fish stocks, threatened extinction of some species (e.g. whales), shark attacks, polluted and dried-up rivers, misallocated water, unsafe boating, piracy, and other indices of economic disarray which, if they had occurred on the land, would have been more easily identified as the result of the tragedy of the commons and/or government ownership and mismanagement. The purpose of this book is to make the case for privatization of all bodies of water, without exception. In the tragic example of the Soviet Union, the 97% of the land owned by the state accounted for 75% of the crops. On the 3% of the land privately owned, 25% of the crops were grown. The obvious mandate requires that we privatize the land, and prosper. The present volume applies this lesson, in detail, to bodies of water.
Les mer
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.
Les mer

Chapter 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

Les mer

This book series is devoted to studying the foundations of capitalism from a number of academic disciplines including, but not limited to, philosophy, political science, economics, law, literature, and history. Recognizing the expansion of the boundaries of economics, this series particularly welcomes proposals for monographs and edited collections that focus on topics from transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary perspectives. Lexington Books will consider a wide range of conceptual, empirical, and methodological submissions, Works in this series will tend to synthesize and integrate knowledge and to build bridges within and between disciplines. They will be of vital concern to academicians, business people, and others in the debate about the proper role of capitalism, business, and business people in economic society.

Series Editor: Edward W. Younkins

Advisory Board: Doug Bandow, Walter Block, Douglas J. Den Uyl, Richard M. Ebeling, Mimi Gladstein, Samuel Gregg, Stephen Hicks, Steven Horwitz, Stephan Kinsella, Tibor R. Machan, Michael Novak, James Otteson, Douglas B. Rasmussen, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Aeon J. Skoble, C. Bradley Thompson, and Thomas E. Woods ,

Les mer

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I'm going to recommend your book, of course, to listeners. I don’t think you’re going to find another book on water body privatization. I think I can say that with a degree of confidence. But this book, which Walter Block and his co-author have just released . . . is the place to go to get a lot of very important food for thought.

The Tom Woods Show

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 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

Walter Block is a famous champion of property rights, and his book with Peter Nelson makes the case for private oceans, rivers, lakes, and acquifers in compelling and convincing fashion. It could also not be more timely. Water Capitalism indeed!

- Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Mises Institute,

Se alle

In this provocative new book Walter Block and Peter Nelson thoroughly and eloquently discuss the idea of privatizing the oceans and all other bodies of water. Included in this well-researched volume are in-depth treatments of the entire spectrum of aquatic ownership concepts as well as an enlightening description of a potential aquatic privatization homesteading process. This well-written and easy-to-read treatise persuasively challenges assumptions and ideas held by people throughout the ages.

- Edward W. Younkins,

Water covers some 75% of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25%, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1% of world GDP, the latter 99% plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are more people located on land than water. But a more important explanation is that while land is privately owned, water is unowned (with the exception of a few small lakes and ponds), or governmentally owned (rivers, large lakes). This gives rise to the tragedy of the commons: when something is unowned, people have less of an incentive to care for it, preserve it, and protect it, than when they own it. As a result we have oil spills, depletion of fish stocks, threatened extinction of some species (e.g. whales), shark attacks, polluted and dried-up rivers, misallocated water, unsafe boating, piracy, and other indices of economic disarray which, if they had occurred on the land, would have been more easily identified as the result of the tragedy of the commons and/or government ownership and mismanagement. The purpose of this book is to make the case for privatization of all bodies of water, without exception. In the tragic example of the Soviet Union, the 97% of the land owned by the state accounted for 75% of the crops. On the 3% of the land privately owned, 25% of the crops were grown. The obvious mandate requires that we privatize the land, and prosper. The present volume applies this lesson, in detail, to bodies of water.
Les mer
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.
Les mer

Chapter 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

Les mer

This book series is devoted to studying the foundations of capitalism from a number of academic disciplines including, but not limited to, philosophy, political science, economics, law, literature, and history. Recognizing the expansion of the boundaries of economics, this series particularly welcomes proposals for monographs and edited collections that focus on topics from transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary perspectives. Lexington Books will consider a wide range of conceptual, empirical, and methodological submissions, Works in this series will tend to synthesize and integrate knowledge and to build bridges within and between disciplines. They will be of vital concern to academicians, business people, and others in the debate about the proper role of capitalism, business, and business people in economic society.

Series Editor: Edward W. Younkins

Advisory Board: Doug Bandow, Walter Block, Douglas J. Den Uyl, Richard M. Ebeling, Mimi Gladstein, Samuel Gregg, Stephen Hicks, Steven Horwitz, Stephan Kinsella, Tibor R. Machan, Michael Novak, James Otteson, Douglas B. Rasmussen, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Aeon J. Skoble, C. Bradley Thompson, and Thomas E. Woods ,

Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781498518802
Publisert
2015-10-30
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
581 gr
Høyde
237 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
302

Forfatter
Block Walter E.
Nelson Peter L.

Biografisk notat

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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