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Deregulation and Its Consequences
When rules rolled back—and when crises or social costs invited a second look.
Deregulation promised cheaper tickets, more dynamism, and narrower margins of bureaucratic error. Airlines, trucking, telecoms, and finance each carry distinct case studies of gains and mishaps.
Evidence policy
Cost-benefit analysis became the default language for judging both regulation and its removal. Economists-in-government topics overlap here: who measures wins and losses, and on what horizon?
Competition concentration
Some deregulation spurred entry; other episodes ended in consolidation. Antitrust and market-structure entries help separate pro-market rhetoric from competitive outcomes.