[Read] The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American

[Read] 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. For Full
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