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KAHN, Alfred was born on October 17, 1917 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of the late Jacob M. and Bertha Orlean Kahn.
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Over the last several years, the value of stocks in both the airline and the telecommunications industries have dropped catastrophically. Since these industries were among the most important —and most visible —to have been unleashed from regulation in recent decades (albeit in widely differing degree), their difficulties have raised the question of whether their deregulation should be reconsidered or even reversed. Alfred E. Kahn, one of the foremost authorities on deregulation, argues in this book that every passing year demonstrates the superiority of the road chosen for the airlines. He contrasts the financial meltdowns of both the airline and telecommunications industries with others taking place at the same time, particularly in technology-related stocks and "dot.coms," pointing out that these sectors were also relatively free of direct economic regulation. Their experience provides a useful counter to the natural tendency to blame all the woes of aviation and telecommunications on government policy. This book provides a valuable and accessible guide to unraveling the complex world of network deregulation. It will serve as a reference point for practioners and policymakers, as well as an important introduction for the general public.
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This study analyzes the dramatic changes in Britain's world position between 1919 and 1939 by means of the international theory of equilibrium, which is used to illuminate the British experience and to demonstrate the value of the theory itself.
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KAHN, Alfred was born on October 17, 1917 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of the late Jacob M. and Bertha Orlean Kahn.
AB, New York University, 1936. Master of Arts, New York University, 1937. Postgraduate, University Missouri, 1938.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1942. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Colby College, 1978. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1979.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Ripon College, 1980. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Northwestern University, 1982. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Colgate University, 1983.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Albany, 1985.
Member staff, Brookings Institute, 1940, 51-52;
with anti-trust division, Department Justice, 1941-1942;
with anti-trust division, Department Commerce, 1942;
with anti-trust division, War Production Board, 1943;
economist on Palestine surveys, 1943-1944;
economist on Palestine surveys, Twentieth Century Fund, 1944-1945;
assistant professor, department chairman economics, Ripon College, 1945-1947;
assistant professor, Cornell Univercity, 1947-1950;
associate professor, Cornell Univercity, 1950-1955;
professor, Cornell Univercity, 1955-1989;
department chairman economics, Cornell Univercity, 1958-1963;
Robert Julius Thorne professor economics, Cornell Univercity, 1967-1989;
emeritus, Cornell Univercity, since 1989;
dean College Arts and Sciences, Cornell Univercity, 1969-1974;
chairman, New York State Public Service Commission, 1974-1977;
chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board, 1977-1978;
chairman, Council on Wage and Price Stability (adviser to President on inflation), 1978-1980. Member attorney general's national commission to study anti-trust laws, 1953-1955. Senior staff United States Council Economics Advisers, 1955-1957.
Special consultant Boni, Watkins, Jason & Company. New York City, 1957-1961, National Economics Research Associations, 1961-1974, 80-, United States Foreign Agricultural Svc., Israel, 1960-1961, Department Justice, 1963-1964, Federal Trade Commission, 1965, Ford Foundation, 1967. Economics advisory county American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1968-1974.
Economics advising committee United States Chamber of Commerce, 1964-1966. Member environmental advising committee Federal Energy Administration, 1974-1977. Member review committee sulfur emissions from power plants National Academy Sciences, 1974-1975.
Advisory board Electric Power Research Institute, 1974-1977. Member National Antitrust Law Review Committee, 1978-1979. Advisory to New York governor on committee regulation, 1980-1981.
Member usage panel American Heritage Dictionary, since 1982. Member of New York Governor's Advisory Committee on Public Power for Long Island, 1986, New York Governor's Fact-Finding Panel on Shoreham Nuclear Plant, 1983, New York State Council on Fiscal and Economics Priorities, 1983-1989. Chairman advising committee on price reform and competition in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1990-1992.
Economics commentator Nightly Business Report (public television), 1981-1997. Member Ohio Blue Ribbon Panel Telecomm. Regulation, 1992-1993.
Member of New York State Telecomm. Exch., 1992-1994; Court-appointed expert United States District Court, 1993-1994. Committee study of competition United States airline industry National Research Council, since 1999.
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Trustee Cornell University, 1964-1969. Member national governing board Common Cause, 1982-1985. Chairman Blue Ribbon Panel to Investigate Pricing of Electricity in California, 2000.
Member American Economic Association (vice president 1981-1982), National Association Regulatory Utility Commissioners (executive committee, chairman committee on electricity 1975-1977), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mary Simmons, October 10, 1943. Children: Joel, Rachel, Hannah.