Mason Gaffney Bibliography
1955 to Sept., 1995

H. Water Economics and Law

H-1. "Federal Water Policy." In Economic Analysis and the Efficiency of Government. Hearings, U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on Efficiency in Government, Part 2, pp. 334-42, 384-89. Washington: USGPO, 1970.

H-2. "Rural-urban Competition for Water." JFE 42(5):1363-66, Dec. 1960.

H-3. "Diseconomies Inherent in Western Water Laws: a California Case Study." Economic Analysis and Multiple Use, Report #9 in the series Water and Range Resources and Economic Development of the West. Proceedings of Western Agricultural Economics Research Council, Range and Water Section, Tucson, January 1961, pp. 55- 82. Republished, Hearings on Economic Analysis and the Efficiency of Government. U.S. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Efficiency in Government. Part 2, pp. 389-405. Used as input, California Governor's Commission on Water Rights Law Reform, Sacramento, 1979. (Cf. item H-14, infra.)

H-4. "Water Law and Economic Transfers of Water: a Reply." JFE 44(2):427-34, May 1962. (A debate with Dean Frank Trelease, Univ. of Wyo. School of Law, on H-3, supra.)

H-5. "Comparison of Market Pricing and Other Means of Allocating Water Resources." Water Law and Policy in the Southeast. Southeastern Water Law Conference, Univ. of Ga., Nov. 1961, published by Inst. of Law and Govt., Univ. of Ga., in cooperation with the Farm Foundation and the Southeastern Land Tenure Research Committee, 1962, pp. 195-229.

H-6. "Milliman on Urban Water Price and Tax Policy." AJES, Sept. 1966, pp. 399-404.

H-7. "An Economist Looks at Research on Water." The Social Sciences in Water Resources Research. University Park: Water Resources Center, Penna. State Univ., 1968.

H-8. "Economic Aspects of Water Resource Policy." AJES 28(2):131-44, April 1969. Republished in Charles J. Meyers and Dan Tarlock (eds.), Water Resource Management: a Law School Case Book, Stanford Law School. Republished in part in Jesse Dukeminier and James Krier (eds.) Property. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.

H-9. "Water Supply." Review of book by Hirshleifer, Milliman and DeHaven, The Appraisal J, April 1962.

H-10. "Urban Water Supply - A Second Look." AEA Proceedings, May 1967, pp. 192-95.

H-11. "The Federal Role in Water Development." Retitled by editor, "Water, Politics and Human Nature." Challenge 8(9):24- 28, June 1960.

H-12. "If Philosophers were Kings." Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 9, 1963.

H-13. "Criteria for the Assignment of Financial Responsibility" (for the Feather River Project), 1960. Address given on radio station KPFA, San Francisco, 1960, transcribed and edited for release, pp. 1-8.

H-14. "Diseconomies Inherent in our Present Water Law." Kick- off Testimony, California Governor's Commission on Water Rights Law Reform, Sacramento, July 14, 1977. Testimony and discussion recorded in Harrison Dunning, Staff Director, "Minutes of First Regular Meeting," Sacramento, July 14, 1977, pp. 1-17. Testimony was incorporated in findings of Commission, Final Report, 1979.

H-15. Consultant to William Kahrl (ed.), The California Water Atlas, 1979. I am listed on the title page with the Board of Advisers.

H-16. "Why I Recommend a 'No' Vote on the Resolution to Endorse the Peripheral Canal Proposal." Appendix, "Recommendations on Peripheral Canal Initiative," Report of Public Utility Board to Riverside City Council (in my capacity as Public Utility Commissioner), 1982. Pp. 1-7. [At this time I spoke at several public debates on the topic. I was the designated spokesman for the negative in this region during the campaign.]

H-17. "International Allocation of Boundary Waters: U.S. vs. Mexico." AAAS, Pacific Coast Division, San Diego meetings, June 1987. Published in Proceedings.

H-18. "A Critique of Federal Water Policy." In Robert Haveman and Robert Hamrin (eds.) The Political Economy of Federal Policy. New York etc., Harper and Row, 1973.

H-19. "How a Water Market Might Work." Supplement to testimony presented to California Governor's Commission on Water Rights Law Reform, (H-14, supra), 1977, pp. 1-4.

H-20. "Whose Water? Ours," 1993. In Polly Dyer (ed.), Whose Water? Past; Present; Future. Seattle: Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Washington, pp. 69-93 + 125- 33.

H-21. "The Taxable Surplus in Water Resources," 1992. Contemporary Policy Issues 10(4): 74-82, October. Offprints distributed by The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.



  1. Forest Economics
  2. Extractive Resources, and Leasing Policy
  3. Land Economics, General
  4. Land Economics, Agricultural
  5. Land Economics, Urban
  6. Environmental Economics
  7. Public Finance
  8. Water Economics and Law
  9. Macro-economic Policy and Theory
  10. Replacement Policy and Theory
  11. History of Economic Thought
  12. General Economics
  13. Biography
  14. Teaching materials, used in lieu of texts
  15. Major unpublished papers, unfinished papers in progress

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