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7 May 2008, 12:44 pm
Goolsby, judging by webbed pieces of his I've read, is a pro-market economist who happens to be a Democrat, rather like Alfred Kahn, who gave us airline dereguation under Carter. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 9:56 pm by Josh Wright
  In another famous example, economist Alfred Kahn was appointed in New York v. [read post]
21 May 2008, 2:59 pm
  Alfred Kahn, the Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under President Carter, in a recent working paper, stated his belief that congestion pricing would be a better approach. [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 7:17 am by Adam Thierer
  Scholars have noted (see McCraw’s “Prophets of Regulation”) sometimes just a couple of key players (such as Alfred Kahn in the airline context) were able to change the underlying dynamics of deregulation very rapidly to push through long-lasting reforms. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 9:00 am by Public Employment Law Press
Such benefits shall be paid to  electing employees or their beneficiaries by the designated insurer or insurers in accordance with the terms of their contracts.* The author of this NYPPL blog entry, Harvey Randall, Esq. drafted and implemented Article 8-B of the Education Law, the State University of New York's Optional Retirement Program, and advised Robert Stone, Esq., then Counsel, New York State Department of Education and Arthur Kahn, Esq. then Counsel, New York City Board of… [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 2:31 am
 The venerable Alfred Kahn, professor emeritus at Cornell and the dean of US regulatory economists, anticipated this result in arguing that net neutrality rules are best left to antitrust courts. [read post]
25 May 2011, 12:04 pm by royblack
When the Alfred P. [read post]
5 Mar 2023, 9:05 pm by Susan Dudley
President Carter enticed Cornell economics professor Alfred Kahn to Washington to head the CAB. [read post]
2 Aug 2017, 6:00 am by Peter Swire
Under President Carter, a progressive alliance of economist Alfred Kahn, then-Senate staffer Stephen Breyer, and Ralph Nader succeeded in eliminating the Civil Aeronautics Board and price setting for airline tickets, opening the way for discount airlines. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 10:30 am by Wayne Crews
Rather than a make-work “National Broadband Plan” like the one being presented to Congress this month, the FCC needs instead to act like Alfred Kahn at the old CAB, and present a case for turning out the lights and ratcheting down most functions over there, since airwave scarcity is increasingly disappearing (or created artificially by the agency itself) and since “public airwaves” don’t mean much in tomorrow’s world of limitless content access,… [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 5:41 pm by Buce
Perhaps one exception: Carter the peanut farmer sincerely disliked "regulation" and through the instrumentality of Alfred Kahn, he conducted the first great wave of deregulation since the beginning of the New Deal--trucking, airlines, natural gas. [read post]
31 May 2012, 10:54 am by Josh Wright
 They are very familiar in the antitrust community — Alfred Kahn in New York v. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 5:35 am
  [Time out for a Favorite Economist Moment: Alfred Kahn, the NYU-educated Cornell Professor of economics who headed the late Civil Aviation Board under the Carter Administration, and who we have to thank—seriously—for airline deregulation, was called to testify before Congress at one point during his tenure and, anticipating that the Senators would stray afield from questions about the airline industry to questions about the parlous state of the… [read post]
17 Mar 2019, 9:10 pm by Reuel Schiller
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, whose technical expertise informed the substance of these hearings; and the economist Alfred Kahn whose academic work and real-world implementation of deregulatory policies at both the New York Public Service Commission and, later, at the Civil Aeronautics Board seemed to demonstrate the real-world benefits of deregulation. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 3:07 pm by Adam Thierer
The potential for industry capture grows in proportion to size of the regulatory regime: Alfred Kahn, author of the seminal Economics of Regulation said it best long ago: “Responsible for the continued provision and improvement of service, [the regulatory commission] comes increasingly and understandably to identify the interest of the public with that of the existing companies on whom it must rely to deliver goods. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 7:00 pm by Thom Lambert
  I hope to build upon some classic regulatory scholarship, like Alfred Kahn’s Economics of Regulation (1970) and Justice Breyer’s Regulation and Its Reform (1984), to craft a systematic regulatory model that both avoids “regulatory mismatch” (applying the wrong regulatory fix to a particular type of market failure) and incorporates the decision-theoretic perspective. [read post]