This article examines the politics of airline deregulation in the 1970s, and the events that led to the passage of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. It links the antibureaucratic, antiregulatory policies of the 1970s to ideas closely connected to the New Left, the counterculture, and other left-wing subcultures that dominated high and low thought in the 1960s. By linking this source of antibureaucratic sentiment to the politics of airline deregulation, this article suggests a new direction for historians who study the American state in the last decades of the twentieth century. As they focus their attention on the rise of market-based, neoliberal regulatory policies, they should look for their origins not only in the growing strength of the intellectual and political right, but also in the political thought and practice of the 1960s left.

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航空公司放松管制的奇怪起源：经济放松管制和美国左派

本文考察了 1970 年代航空公司放松管制的政治，以及导致 1978 年航空公司放松管制法案通过的事件。它将 1970 年代的反官僚、反管制政策与与新左派、反文化、和其他在 1960 年代主导高低思想的左翼亚文化。通过将这种反官僚情绪的根源与航空公司放松管制的政治联系起来，这篇文章为研究 20 世纪最后几十年美国国家的历史学家提供了一个新的方向。当他们将注意力集中在以市场为基础的新自由主义监管政策的兴起上时，他们不仅应该在知识分子和政治右翼日益强大的力量中寻找其根源，而且还应该在 1960 年代左翼的政治思想和实践中寻找根源。