Re: Daniel Yergin & pal on the grid

2003-08-19 Thread Bill Burgess
An article by Andrew Goetz in The Journal of Transport Geography, March 2002 does a pretty convincing job on US airline deregulation. Among other things, he notes that because of the economics of hub and spoke routing/scheduing, one airline has come to more or less monopolize each regional hub, cr

Re: Daniel Yergin & pal on the grid

2003-08-19 Thread Louis Proyect
Anders Schneiderman wrote: Speaking of which, anybody know of a good relatively recent article from a progressive perspective about how airline deregulation fared? I've seen a couple of moderates in the last few days who have said, hey deregulation isn't all that bad look at the airlines. My impr

Re: Daniel Yergin & pal on the grid

2003-08-19 Thread Devine, James
Anders writes: >My impression is that in the airline industry, prices are down for lucky people like myself who live in DC but not for people who live in my hometown, Syracuse New York, and that travel biplane is a lot more painful than it used to be< they've gone back to the old technology? ;-)

Re: Daniel Yergin & pal on the grid

2003-08-19 Thread Anders Schneiderman
Speaking of which, anybody know of a good relatively recent article from a progressive perspective about how airline deregulation fared? I've seen a couple of moderates in the last few days who have said, hey deregulation isn't all that bad look at the airlines. My impression is that in the ai

Re: Daniel Yergin & pal on the grid

2003-08-18 Thread Devine, James
[They consistently phrase things in such a way as to flatter deregulationists. But their bottom line argument seems to be that dereg can only work with a government run grid -- in other words, if it is considerably regged. Buried in here is a not bad illustration of how real markets depend on gov

Re: Daniel Yergin & pal on the grid

2003-08-17 Thread Eugene Coyle
Yergin and Makovich don't make a lot of sense here, though it all sounds statesman-like. I'd better try a letter to the Times. I debated Makovich in Brazilia a couple of years ago. He told the congress that they'd better speed privatization and also give investors lots of money or the rationing

Re: Daniel Yergin & pal on the grid

2003-08-17 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: "Michael Pollak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [They consistently phrase things in such a way as to flatter > deregulationists. But their bottom line argument seems to be that dereg > can only work with a government run grid -- in other words, if it is > considerably

Daniel Yergin & pal on the grid

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Pollak
[They consistently phrase things in such a way as to flatter deregulationists. But their bottom line argument seems to be that dereg can only work with a government run grid -- in other words, if it is considerably regged. Buried in here is a not bad illustration of how real markets depend on gov