Water rights
Subtitle: scarce resource allocation, bureaucracy, and the environment
By: editor, Terry L. Anderson ; foreword by Jack Hirshleifer.
Contributors: Anderson, Terry Lee, 1946-; Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research.
Series: Pacific studies in public policy
Publisher: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research; Ballinger Pub. Co.
Published: 1983
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Water rights -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Appropriators versus expropriators / Alfred G. Cuzán; title: The federal reclamation program / Randal R. Rucker and Price V. Fishback; title: Water pricing and rent seeking in California agriculture / B. Delworth Gardner; title: Water in Colorado / Timothy D. Tregarthen; title: Institutional restrictions on the transfer of water rights and the survival of an agency / Micha Gisser and Ronald N. Johnson; title: The economic determinants and consequences of private and public ownership of local irrigation facilities / Rodney T. Smith; title: Privatizing groundwater basins / Terry L. Anderson, Oscar R. Burt, and David T. Fractor; title: Instream water use / James Huffman; title: Building markets for tradable pollution rights / M.T. Maloney and Bruce Yandle.