A few suggestions follow.
for deregulation across several industries:
Robert Crandall and Jerry Ellig, Economic Deregulation and Customer Choice (1996),
Fairfax, VA: Center for Market Processes, George Mason University. This article has
many useful references.
for airline deregulation:
Steve
>Also relevant is quality and availability of service. Previously prices
>may have been cheap/falling but the range of offering, customer
>treatment or availability may have constrained enjoyment of the service
>to a sub optimal level. Deregulation could/should change this. (I think
>it has in my
I remember reading somewhere, probably a Brookings study, that airline
productivity grew in the 1960s as a result of the switch from propeller
planes to jets. Presumably prices fell for the same reason. But after
jets were diffused throughout the industry, technological change could no
longer be
Also relevant is quality and availability of service. Previously prices
may have been cheap/falling but the range of offering, customer
treatment or availability may have constrained enjoyment of the service
to a sub optimal level. Deregulation could/should change this. (I think
it has in my limit
Do they define their use of "free market" and "deregulation?"
Has the deregulation talked about resulted in a freemarket?
Bryan
>From: Robin Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Consumer Reports on Deregulation
>Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:11:06
The July 2002 issue of Consumer Reports (not yet on their website) has an
article on p.30 on "Deregulation" with a summary "Why consumers suffer most
in a free market - and what you can do about it." Their strongest argument
is a graph on p.30 on titled "Prices: A long-term decline. Consumer
pr
Is the reason most restaurants in the US don't have pay toilets the same
as the reason that many grocery stores in the US don't have a bring your
own bag/buy a bag policy? Both pay systems seem to be more common in
Europe.
Also, both the grocery stores and the types I restaurants that would
