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The Curious Origins of Airline Deregulation: Economic Deregulation and the American Left (Winter 2019)

Business History Review
Volume: 93
Issue: 4
Pages: 729-753

DOI: 10.1017/S0007680519001247

URI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/curious-origins-of-airline-deregulation-economic-deregulation-and-the-american-left/0AF702DC5FEBE96FD7C68210D273C60D

Publication Date: Winter 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: New Perspectives in Regulatory History
Language: English

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Business history Social sciences Airline industry Regulation Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 Administrative law Liberalism Neoliberalism 20th century United States

This article examines the politics of airline deregulation in the 1970s, and the events that led to the passage of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. It links the antibureaucratic, antiregulatory policies of the 1970s to ideas closely connected to the New Left, the counterculture, and other left-wing subcultures that dominated high and low thought in the 1960s. By linking this source of antibureaucratic sentiment to the politics of airline deregulation, this article suggests a new direction for historians who study the American state in the last decades of the twentieth century. As they focus their attention on the rise of market-based, neoliberal regulatory policies, they should look for their origins not only in the growing strength of the intellectual and political right, but also in the political thought and practice of the 1960s left.

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Article Laura Phillips Sawyer; Herbert Hovenkamp (Winter 2019) New Perspectives in Regulatory History. Business History Review (pp. 659-664). unapi

Article Lily Geismer (Winter 2019) Comment on Reuel Schiller: The Curious Origins of Airline Deregulation: Economic Deregulation and the American Left. Business History Review (pp. 755-757). unapi

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