Franklin M FisherFranklin M. Fisher, Dennis Carlton and Jane Berkowitz Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at M.I.T, was the leader of a group of Israelis, Jordanians, Palestinians and Americans, who together created MYWAS, the multi-year Water Allocation System for anaging water systems in the Middle East. This over twenty-five-year long project created a model usable by each participating country for evaluating improvements in each water system. At the time of his death in 2019, Fisher, a man of peace, hoped that someday, the system could also be a tool for facilitating cooperation between the nations. In telling the story of this project he hoped to show how cooperation yields gains greater than the value of the disputed water. Read More Read Less