The Tom Woods Show, episode 548.

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slash zap. Hello and welcome to episode 548. Today we're talking about water. I'm talking about water

in the form of lakes and rivers and oceans. We're talking about water. We're talking about water in the form of lakes and rivers and oceans.

We're talking about privatizing these bodies of water. Why you'd want to do it, how you would do it,

how it would work, what the results would be, what the technical feasibility is. All these

sorts of questions are going to be answered today

with our old friend Walter Block, and you may know Walter. He has nearly 500 articles in peer-reviewed

publications. Of course, that doesn't include thousands of articles in popular publications. He has

many books, most famously defending the undefendable, but today we're going to be

talking about his brand new book, co-authored, called Water Capitalism, the case for

privatizing oceans, rivers, lakes, and aquifers. Walter Block is a distinguished professor of

economics at Loyola University in New Orleans and a senior

fellow of the Mesa Institute. Walter, welcome to the show.

My pleasure. Always good to be with you. Walter, what a pioneer you are. It's ridiculous to

think about all the topics that you cover that nobody else touches. So your new book is water capitalism,

and it involves the case. I just gave the whole subtitled to the audience a moment ago,

but we're talking about privatizing bodies of water. Now, this is something that is going to

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