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...What is missing from the debate is the perception of the late Alfred Kahn whose pioneering insights into the theory and practice of regulation deserve to be revisited....
...Highlight: The enchanting Art Deco Twickenham Bridge by Maxwell Ayrton and Alfred Dryland (1933) was the first major three-hinged, concrete-arched bridge in the UK....
...Relying on the producers’ exceptional access — particularly Stockman’s — Kahn conducted the interviews. “I was not inside that world the way she was,” Kahn says....
...“Maybe it’s sex appeal, but there’s something about an airline that drives investors crazy,” Alfred Kahn, who deregulated US airlines in the 1970s, once said....
...One of the Act’s architects, Professor Alfred Kahn of Cornell University, erroneously asserted that airlines were merely “marginal costs with wings”, and that a form of economic shock therapy (“letting go...
...Both men pulled out on the eve of the forum, but the event still featured Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former IMF chief, and the anti-migrant, Eurosceptic current and former Czech presidents, Milos...
...I find the work of architects like Louis Kahn and Peter Zumthor particularly inspiring....
...The economics prize in memory of Alfred Nobel was launched in 1969 but it wasn’t until 2009 that Elinor Ostrom became the only woman so far to win it....
...Alfred Kahn was an economist who successfully led the drive to allow low-cost airline competition but found the broader battle against high inflation a tougher prospect....
...This week’s passing of economist Alfred Kahn, 93, has brought tributes for the Cornell professor’s key role in the 1970s deregulation of US airline fares....
...Well, Alfred Kahn, who died recently at 93, did rather a lot....
...It would be the most innovative and intelligent reform by any federal official since Alfred Kahn deregulated the airline industry. That entrepreneurial policy move saves US consumers $20bn per year....
...In 1978, Alfred Kahn, an adviser on inflation to President Jimmy Carter, used the word “depression”. So angry was the president that Mr Kahn started to call it “banana” instead....
...Those who were affected ● Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as finance minister in 1999 after questions were raised over his links to Elf – among others – dating back to 1993-1995, when he was not in government...
...Carter administration economist Alfred Kahn was famously admonished when he warned of one (he cheekily called it a banana instead)....
...The venerable Alfred Kahn, professor emeritus at Cornell and the dean of US regulatory economists, anticipated this result in arguing that net neutrality rules are best left to antitrust courts....
...Alfred E. Kahn was chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1977-78, the period of deregulation, and is professor of political economy emeritus at Cornell University....
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