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The Colorado Doctrine /
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 mine...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (224 p.) : 15 b-w illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780300189049 9783110537994 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |