All Posts Tagged With: "airline regulation"
Forgotten Lines
In the January 23, 2010, Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle, one of the clues was “Sassy reply to criticism.” The answer: “It’s a free country.” Why do I find this so striking? For two reasons. First, when I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, not many people around me considered that a sassy reply. [...]
20Apr2010 | David R. Henderson | 4 comments | ContinuedAnother Reason for Airport Privatization
Robert Poole, Jr., is president of the Reason Foundation and a long-time transportation policy researcher. Copyright 2000 Reason Foundation. In several ways, the specter of re-regulation of the airlines raised its head in 1999. A number of bills in Congress aimed at increasing smaller airlines’ access into major hub airports like Chicago’s O’Hare by giving [...]
1Jun2000 | Robert W. Poole Jr. | 19 comments | ContinuedFrontiers: Last, Lost, and Found
Eric Nolte is an airline pilot, a writer, and a classically trained pianist and composer of contemporary concert music. Technological innovation is the most powerful force for improving our safety and health, but such creativity withers under government control. It flourishes in the rich soil of freedom. Government intervention subsidizes businesses that are mediocre, obsolescent, [...]
1Mar1999 | Eric Nolte | 1 comment | Continued-
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