Alfred E. Kahn, who served as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under President Jimmy Carter and is considered the father of airline deregulation, will discuss that topic in a free, public lecture in the Shaker Heights High School small auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15. He will also talk about predatory pricing practices by airlines.

He will be introduced by Richard W. Pogue, retired managing director of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue, a prominent Cleveland law firm., and a member of the board of directors of Continental Airlines. The event is sponsored by the Cornell Club of Northeast Ohio. Kahn is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Cornell University. Pogue is a Cornell alumnus.

Kahn will also speak to economics students at Shaker Heights High School on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 9 a.m.

Kahn chaired the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1977 to 1978 and led the airline deregulation process. He is the author of the landmark two-volume The Economics of Regulation, and most recently of Letting Go: Deregulating the Process of Deregulation (Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries, Michigan State University, 1998), which focuses on deregulation of electric power and telecommunications industries.

The 1997 Welsh Pogue Award was presented to Kahn by the Aviation Week Group; the award is named for the former chairman of the Civil Aviation Board who was instrumental in supporting the United States' post-World War II expansion of commercial aviation. Welsh Pogue is Richard Pogue's father.

Kahn served as an adviser to President Carter on inflation and as chairman of the federal Council on Wage and Price Stability and the New York Public Service Commission.