...Kenneth Button This article is concerned with the foresights that Alfred Kahn had when he led the deregulation of the US passenger airline industry, and in particular with the role the ideas in his Economics of Regulation played in his actions. Kahn was a reluctant deregulator of the US interstate...

...Andrej Svorenčík The aviation industry changed dramatically in the wake of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. My paper looks at an element of this transformation—the policy according to which take-off and landing slots were allocated at congested airports including a proposal to change...

... and the policy domain. Correspondence may be addressed to Elizabeth Popp Berman, Department of Sociology, 1400 Washington Avenue AS 351, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY 12222; e-mail: [email protected] . Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 deregulation policy industrial...

... of 1988 Resolutions . Research Paper No. 160. Office of Policy and Economic Research, Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Barth , James R. , and Michael G. Bradley 1989 . Thrift Deregulation and Federal Deposit Insurance. Journal of Financial Services Research 12 : 231 -16. Blocker , G. John...

.../00076791.2011.599589 . Hirsh Richard F . 1989 . Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry . New York : Cambridge University Press . Hirsh Richard F . 1999 . Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility...

.... The Chicago Boys, Edwards explains, freed prices and interest rates, lowered import tariffs, privatized hundreds of state-owned enterprises, instituted school vouchers, created individual savings pension accounts, deregulated businesses and banks, and furthered markets everywhere. They applied a “shock...

... conventional story. Today, it is sacrilege to say that credit default swaps can be beneficial or that deregulation can lift people out of poverty. These swings from one uncontested truth to another—whether in political or economic coverage— now come with increasing velocity and the power to sweep aside...

... as it was conducted in accordance with a fixed rule that stripped the Federal Reserve of discretionary authority. Another Chicago Nobel Prize winner, George Stigler, was the leading intellectual force behind the deregulation movement of the 1970s through the 1990s. For some in the freshwater community, faith...

.... There would be little point in regulating the quantity of domestic credit if international money movements were left unregulated. A completely deregulated foreign ex- change market would therefore seem to be inconsistent with the notion of community-created credit. 3.5. Private Interference versus...

... expenditures for the welfare state have become regarded as too costly. Many now argue also that since budget deficits necessi- tate government reliance on private sources of financing, private markets are more influential and demand deregulation and freedom from govern- ment interference. Still...

... in curbing taxation and public spending, deregulating large sectors of the Book Reviews 361 economy, and clearing the way for globalization (5). The point of that is to show, as the dust jacket has it the Economists Hour failed to deliver on its promise of broad prosperity. And the single-minded embrace...

.... Viewed from this perspective, improved economic performance in poor countries mandated shrinkage in governmental claims on resources, along with deregulation and privatization of state and para- state enterprises. The Bank’s leaders no longer called...

...), on the one hand, and on the role of actively organized intellectual networks, such as the Mont Pelerin Society, on the other. (e.g., Mirowski and Plehwe 2009) To the extent that whatever happens to cor- porations is a direct outcome of state policies—e.g., deregulation, loosen- ing of anti-trust...

... extent, deregulated rails. Whether or not a regulatory regime yielded greater net benefits to society than open competition would have is highly problematical. 29. In the 1930s Harold Hotelling (1938) advanced theoretical grounds for nationalizing decreasing-cost and other industries on grounds...

... were outsourced to private contractors; industries were deregulated; taxes were cut; and attempts were made to reduce the level of govern- ment spending. This was much more than a simple change in attitudes toward economic policy: it was a radical shift of worldview, involving a transformation...

... and others may consider a demand for regulation, and others a de- mand to deregulate, I perceive as a demand for changing the law. The ac- tivist sees social control in legal change; the observer-analyst sees social control throughout the status quo. My proposed baseline derives from my positive study...

... currency becomes 46. Patinkin, 80; emphasis added. 47. These financial innovations are examined in more detail in Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., ‘Money in a deregulated financial system,’ Economic Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, May 1985, 1-12, especially 2-6. Deregulation...

... for this collection. The theme is implicit in the title and the reputation of the editor, namely the impasse between conventional wisdom, including economic theory, and the determinable unfolding of real world events. Airline Deregulation and Laissez-Faire Mythology. By Paul Stephen Dempsey and Andres R...

... a lead- ing role in curbing taxation and public spending, deregulating large sectors of the ...

.... Paris: Sirey. McCallum , Bennett T. 1985 . Bank deregulation, accounting systems of exchange, and the unit of account: a critical review. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 23 : 13 -46. Menger , Carl . 1892 . On the origin of money. Economic Journal 2 ( June...