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By the end of the 1960s, it seemed to me that the Keynesian order had broken down irreparably, and that, in the coming contest for the succession, economic liberalism rather than socialism would eventually become the ruling ideology in British politics. Almost everybody in university life and in higher journalism thought otherwise, even after Margaret Thatcher became the Leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, and, thus, according to those who thought like me, the next Prime Minister. The conventional wisdom was that there was not going to be a Thatcher era, and then when there was a Thatcher Government the argument ran that it was going to be doomed to suffer the same fate as the wretched Heath Government, with an explicit U-turn into supposed political and economic reality after about two years, and, of course, nobody was supposed to be able to break the unions and render Britain 'governable' once more, and capable of an economic renaissance. There seems no reason to set out the thesis of this book beyond stating that those who followed 'respectable' opinion in these matters got it wrong, and, for whatever reasons, which the present writer would concede included much in the way

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Author

Geoffrey K. Fry (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230594111

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Anthropology