Mrs. Thatcher's Economic Experiment
Author : William Keegan
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : William Keegan
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Eric J. Evans
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : 0415270138
Thatcherism produced dramatic changes in most aspects of public life, both in Britain and abroad. This work surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed. Centering on the career of Margaret Thatcher, the author argues that Thatcherism was a bold experiment in ideologically driven government which failed to meet its objectives.
Author : Claire Berlinski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0465031226
Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline -- ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain's Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation's postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism could be reversed, inspiring a global free-market revolution. Simultaneously exploiting every politically useful aspect of her femininity and defying every conventional expectation of women in power, Thatcher crushed her enemies with a calculated ruthlessness that stunned the British public and without doubt caused immense collateral damage. Ultimately, however, Claire Berlinski agrees with Thatcher: There was no alternative. Berlinski explains what Thatcher did, why it matters, and how she got away with it in this vivid and immensely readable portrait of one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.
Author : Massimo Florio
Publisher :
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019967485X
This book offers a careful scrutiny of energy and telephony reforms and their social impact on households in 15 countries across Western Europe. It concludes that the benefits for consumers are limited and it discusses the reasons why the European reform experiment of network industries is not living up to its promises.
Author : Peter A. Hall
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195205237
Analyzing the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain, this book develops a striking new argument about the sources of Britain's economic problems. Through an insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall presents a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.
Author : Gordon T. Pepper
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781950982
This authoritative book analyses the recent problems associated with the UK's monetary system and suggests a long-term solution to control bank lending in the future. It draws on extensive historical material, discussions with former senior officials and politicians, and the perceptive insights of Gordon Pepper, an advisor to Margaret Thatcher when the foundations of monetary control were being laid, to revisit and re-examine the monetarist experiment of the 1980s.
Author : Anthony King
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822306344
The British prime minister is universally acknowledged to be the most powerful single individual in the British system of government, but very little is known about what goes on behind the closed door at #10 Downing Street. As Anthony King points out, there are few articles—let alone books—on the prime ministership available to students of British politics either in the UK or the US. As the preface to the American edition states, while the British prime minister and the American president "do resemble each other in some ways, it is important right at the start to recognize the profound differences between them."
Author : Jon Agar
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1787353419
Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a professional politician, and she maintained a close watch on science matters as prime minister. Scientific knowledge and advice were important to many urgent issues of the 1980s, from late Cold War questions of defence to emerging environmental problems such as acid rain and climate change. Drawing on newly released primary sources, Jon Agar explores how Thatcher worked with and occasionally against the structures of scientific advice, as the scientific aspects of such issues were balanced or conflicted with other demands and values. To what extent, for example, was the freedom of the individual scientist to choose research projects balanced against the desire to secure more commercial applications? What was Thatcher’s stance towards European scientific collaboration and commitments? How did cuts in public expenditure affect the publicly funded research and teaching of universities? In weaving together numerous topics, including AIDS and bioethics, the nuclear industry and strategic defence, Agar adds to the picture we have of Thatcher and her radically Conservative agenda, and argues that the science policy devised under her leadership, not least in relation to industrial strategy, had a prolonged influence on the culture of British science.
Author : Nicholas Kaldor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : William Keegan
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780140077490