Ganesh Sitaraman with Tim Wu

Friday, November 17, 2023
12:30pm — 1:30pm ET
Columbia Law School

A Conversation about the Airline Industry:
Deregulation to Intense Concentration and What Can be Done Now to Fix a Broken System

Join us at Columbia Law School on Friday, November 17 from 12:30 -1:30pm for a conversation between Tim Wu, Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School, and Ganesh Sitaraman, law professor and director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation.

In his upcoming book, Why Flying Is Miserable, Sitaraman looks back at the hopeful origins and recent failures of airline deregulation to explain why everyone has a horror story about air travel. Today, the industry is an oligopoly, with only four too-big-to-fail airlines that have received billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts and still can’t offer reliable service.

Miserable air travel is the perfect symbol of the type of unregulated capitalism that America has unleashed. But there are ways to fix airlines—and, by extension, many other sectors of industry—because, after a half-century run, people are tired of the turbulence that deregulation has brought to our economy.

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This event is free to attend and open to the public, and will be at Columbia Law School’s Jerome Greene Hall, room 106. Registration is required. A Q&A and book signing will follow.

Why Flying is Miserable and The Curse of Bigness, by Tim Wu, will be available for purchase at the event from Book Culture.

Presented by Columbia Global Reports & Columbia Law School
Please note: this event will be recorded

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