Inside US Air Traffic Control: Conflicts of Interest and Absence of Oversight

Inside US Air Traffic Control: Conflicts of Interest and Absence of Oversight

Milton Friedman famously recognized that policy change only happens in crises: Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.  Perhaps “rational” planni…