Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile

In 1981 Chile''s military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country''s previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile is the first empirical and interdisciplinary study of water markets in Chile, which is the...