Bill notes that prior to deregulation "In flight meals were more
substantial and more frequent. Ticket lines were shorter for coach
passengers. Major airline employees were more polite. There were lots of
give always (decks of cards, airline pins, etc.) Flight attendants with
time on their hands w
based on their ability to serve coffee and
tea instead of their looks, you might favor deregulation.
mitch mitchell
- Original Message -
From: "William Dickens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 10, 2002 5:08 pm
Subject: RE: Consumer Reports on Deregulation
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> mitch mitchell
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "William Dickens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, June 10, 2002 5:08 pm
> Subject: RE: Consumer Reports on Deregulation
>
> > >Also relevant is quality and availability of service. Previously
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> . . . I've heard that during the days of regulated air travel,
> airlines apparently competed on the beauty of the stewardesses. . . .
> If you favor hiring people based on their ability to serve coffee
> and tea instead of their looks, you might favor deregulation.
Why
ne 10, 2002 5:08 pm
Subject: RE: Consumer Reports on Deregulation
> >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
> servi
p.s. it's on the web now...
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=157017&;
FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=18151&bmUID=1023794495677
or at tinyurl.com:
http://tinyurl.com/ctr
(tinyurl is a brilliant service that changes those bulky URLs into
manageable - indeed, tiny - ones
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
ehalf
Of Robin Hanson
Sent: 10 June 2002 17:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Consumer Reports on Deregulation
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 w
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 Dere
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
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