by Tom Bozzo Crossposted with Marginal Utility. Matt Welch at the Reason blog takes credit for airline deregulation on behalf of libertarianism: The “worldview” of libertarianism suggested, back in the early 1970s, that if you got the government out of the business of setting all airline ticket prices and composing all in-flight menus, then just […]

In partial response to Cactus’s post, Megan McArdle offers the “look at those low air fares” defense of airline deregulation, going so far as to suggest: I think it’s telling that complaints about deregulation of the airlines come almost entirely from three groups of people: 1) People who have no idea what they are talking […]