Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier by Schorr, David

Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300134476)

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Format: Hardcover
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Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier by Schorr, David

Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier

$84.00
Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier by Schorr, David

Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier

$84.00
Format: Hardcover
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Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the "appropriation doctrine," a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West. Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators, lawmakers, and judges forged a system of private property in water based on a desire to spread property and its benefits as widely as possible among independent citizens. He demonstrates that ownership was not dictated by concerns for economic efficiency, but by a regard for social justice.

Author: David Schorr
ISBN-10: 0300134479
ISBN-13: 9780300134476
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2012
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d

By David Schorr
By David Schorr
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David Schorr is senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University, where he chairs the Law and Environment Program at the Faculty of Law.

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