Provides an empirical and interdisciplinary study of water markets in Chile. This book combines law, political economy, and geography to analyze the disadvantages, problems, and contexts of water markets. It is suitable for those who are interested in property rights and market-friendly environmental policies.

"Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile" combines law, political economy, and geography to analyze the disadvantages, problems, and wider contexts of water markets. This book will appeal to everyone interested in property rights, market-friendly environmental policies, the political economy of sustainable development, and the intersection of economics with law and institutions.

Blueprint for the neoliberal model - law, economics, and politics in the 1980 constitution
water rights and the law of the pendulum - legal and political history of the 1981 water code
bringing water markets down to earth - water rights trading in practice, 1980-1995
private property and river basins - water use conflicts, the market model, and the courts.