Read the following articles highlighting historical governmental economic regulations in the years preceding deregulation:

The History of Airline (De)Regulation In The United States/Aeronautics Online (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Deregulation: A Watershed Event/Smithsonian Institute (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Airline Deregulation: A Triumph of Ideology Over Evidence/Huffington Post (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Write a two-page (not including cover and reference pages) APA-formatted summary report that answers the question: Why was it necessary for the federal government to enact such sweeping regulatory actions in the decades prior to 1978 deregulation?

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