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Introduction

In: Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964–1979

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  • Adrian Williamson

    (Trinity Hall)

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In 1976, Margaret Thatcher told a biographer that she had ‘changed everything’.1 This was a bold claim for an Opposition Leader scarcely a year into the role. Upon her death in 2013, even hostile obituarists agreed that ‘the Thatcher years were a watershed … the ideals of collective effort, full employment and a managed economy … [were] replaced with the politics of me and mine, deregulation … privatisation … Thatcher did not cause these changes, but she legitimised and embedded them.’2 Her biographers echo this, but with admiration. According to Charles Moore, Thatcher fought and won the battle of ideas, imbued with ‘the authority of great thinkers’.3

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  • Adrian Williamson, 2015. "Introduction," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964–1979, chapter 1, pages 1-25, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-1-137-46026-4_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137460264_1
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