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Comment on Reuel Schiller: The Curious Origins of Airline Deregulation: Economic Deregulation and the American Left

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2020

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Air travel is unpleasant for many reasons, particularly in the post-9/11 age. Yet, blame for the cramped accommodations, bag fees, and lack of direct flights has to be assigned in part to the deregulation of the airline industry in the late 1970s. Airline deregulation and its consequences symbolize the ways in which neoliberal ideas and practices have come to shape economic policies as well as the daily lives of ordinary Americans.

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2020

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References

1 See Jacobs, Meg, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (New York, 2016)Google Scholar.

2 McCartin, Joseph A., Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers and the Strike That Changed America (New York, 2011), 196–99CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 See, for example, Schulman, Bruce J., The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (New York, 2001)Google Scholar.

4 David Dayen, “Unfriendly Skies,” American Prospect, Fall 2017, https://prospect.org/power/unfriendly-skies/.