As someone who spent a lot of my career writing about sports as a funhouse mirror of social and economic pathologies, I wholeheartedly recommend this @prospect.org theme issue— @ddayen.bsky.social and his team did a good job! prospect.org/sports/
OPINION by @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social:
“Even if airlines don’t end up adopting personalized pricing, AI-enhanced dynamic pricing is dystopian in its own right.”
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Check out my book, Why Flying is Miserable — a history of airline deregulation and all the problems it caused
@ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social and I have a new piece in Commonplace, “No Handouts for Data Centers.”
Research shows that subsidizing sports stadium construction doesn't pay off. Now states are subsidizing data centers. That won't work either. www.commonplace.org/p/no-handout...
Delighted that Presidential Regulation (w/ @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social) has been published @ YaleJReg. We argue that presidents increasingly use presidential & foreign affairs powers to regulate the domestic economy in ways that aim to minimize judicial review. /1 www.yalejreg.com/wp-content/u...
Today, @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social warns that monopolies in key parts of the AI tech stack pose a serious threat to innovation. To tackle this issue, policymakers should apply antimonopoly tools to the AI sector.
More broadly, we should not assume that if we just get rid of zoning rules and leave things to the market, then big developers, financiers, and landlords will ensure that society has the affordable housing it needs. 5/5
In a new academic paper, Post-Neoliberal Housing Policy (forthcoming @PennLRev), Chris Serkin & I argue why it's insufficient to focus just on zoning and why an all-of-the-above approach is better. 4/5 cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-co...
There are many problems in the housing market, not just zoning. And there are many solutions, not just de-zoning. We offer 28 ideas, including tools from industrial policy, public options, tax policy, and market-shaping regulations. 3/5 cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-co...
The papers argue that focusing only or primarily on zoning reforms is insufficient and that policymakers would be better off adopting a post-neoliberal, all-of-the-above approach to increasing housing supply 2/5
Amidst debates about the “abundance agenda” and affordable housing policy, the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator is releasing two new papers charting an agenda for a post-neoliberal housing policy. 1/5
My new paper, Presidential Regulation, w/ @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social, is up: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... We argue that recent admins have created a new mode of economic governance that is dramatically different how presidents have traditionally used admin tools to regulate the economy. 1/
[For more on the history, see @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social's great article.] www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/articl...
Big day on the Hill for those interested in airline policy. Sen. Marshall pushes airline execs hard on points programs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=myjk...
Josh Hawley goes hard after airline execs on dynamic pricing and fees. Flying is miserable! It's time to fix it.
Excited and grateful that my paper with @tnarecha.bsky.social on AI and Antimonopoly is a finalist for @carnegieendow.bsky.social award for scholarship on AI! carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/1...
For more on the problems with these systems, here’s my piece with Bill McGee: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/...
Frequent flyer programs have changed — and people are rightly wondering if they are a good deal - but this piece doesn’t spend much time on the lack of transparency and unfair practices that are also in these programs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/b...
And here’s the polling. 6/6
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We can do more to make flying convenient and simpler – and we should! These proposals would do that. Check out our paper! 5/6
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And 61% of Americans support airlines letting people bring strollers on the plane, so long as they fit in the overhead cabin, just like other baggage. 4/6
73% of Americans support requiring airlines to put in new convertible seat technology, so people in compatible wheelchairs could stay in their own wheelchairs—instead of having to check them. 3/6
Right now, parents choose between carrying an infant in their arms (affordable but not the safest or most convenient), or buying a full price seat for a carseat. 2/3 of Americans support requiring airlines to offer a $50 infant-in-carseat fare, so babies can travel safe and affordably. 2/6
As we start the busiest travel week of the year, VPA has new polling and a white paper on improving the flying experience. We find that 76% of Americans think airplane seats are too small, and 73% would support a federally mandated minimum seat sizes. This is an easy fix! 1/6
Otoh, it would be ironic if Trump succeeded in merging Commerce and USTR, which Obama tried and failed to do, and which has long been a reform recommendation of progressives like @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social @timlmeyer.bsky.social and others.
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New from me, in Politico, on how public policy shapes the geography of flying....and why you have to connect through big airport hubs. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
