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There is no general economic theory on the effects from desalting. At least the case is not made here for a set of equations which describe changes in national products from de salting as compared to alternative investments. The fear is that this would not be operational at this time, because not enough research has been done on relationships between desalted water and final products to set the form of the supply and demand equations for the water sectors of national economies.
On the other hand, little can be learned from the engineer ing design studies of particular desalting plants at particular locations. The ground rules for these studies differ so greatly, and the environmental characteristics are so distinctive, that general conclusions on effects do not evolve from the particular cases.
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Paul W. MacAvoy is a Thomas F. and William J. Gilbane President Fellow in the Department of Economics at Brown University. Professor MacAvoy served on President Ford's Council of Economic Advisors and on the board of directors of several corporations including Lafarge, American Cyanamid, Alumax, Combustion Engineering and the Chase Manhattan Bank Corporation. He is the author of twenty books and numerous journal articles focusing on government regulation of the structure and conduct of the corporation. Ira M. Millstein, Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, has taught corporate governance, antitrust, and government regulation at New York University, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and currently as a Visiting Professor at the Yale University School of Management. An Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, he has counseled over 50 public and philanthropic boards, including General Motors, CalPERS, Tyco, and The Nature Conservancy, and has published numerous articles on corporate governance.
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