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Alfred E. Kahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Alfred E. Kahn is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor, Emeritus, of Political Economy at Cornell University. He was Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1977-78 and advisor to President Jimmy Carter on deregulation. He was a former Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission. He is the author of The Economics of Regulation: Principles and Institutions, among many other books and articles. He is a Special Consultant to NERA Economic Consulting. ..." |
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35 Heroes of Freedom: Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968, Reason, Dec 2003
Related Topics: Reason's 35 Heroes of Freedom, John Ashcroft, Jeff Bezos, Norman Borlaug, Stewart Brand, William S. Burroughs, Curt Flood, Larry Flynt, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Václav Havel, Friedrich A. Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Jane Jacobs, Brian Lamb, Rose Wilder Lane, Madonna, Nelson Mandela, Martina Navratilova, Willie Nelson, Richard M. Nixon, Les Paul, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Dennis Rodman, Louis Rossetto, Julian L. Simon, Thomas S. Szasz, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, Ted Turner, Evan Williams, Philip R. Zimmermann
"As head of the defunct Civil Aeronautics Board during the Carter years, 'the architect of deregulation' pushed for free markets in the airline industry, ushering in an age in which virtually every slob in America could afford to fly and providing an unassailable example of markets delivering better prices and greater safety than government regulation." |
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