Thinking the Unthinkable - Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-revolution, 1931-83 (Paperback, New ed)

There is another modern British history - an alternative tradition in our government, politics and economics. It is a history kept rather quiet, a tradition largely hidden from view - suspiciously well hidden, some would say.;Thatcher seemed to hit Britain like a thunderbolt from the blue, but her ideas, her policies, her strategies and her vision had all been forged long before she ever arrived at Downing Street. They were first contrived by the anti-Keynesian economist, Friedrich Hayek, the man whose writings inspired Thatcher in all she did. He and his followers began, after World War II, the difficult and uphill task of countering the rise of socialistic collectivism. They were the economic liberals. Among their shock troops, their vanguard of revolutionaries, were Milton Friedman, Alan Walters, Keith Joseph, Ralph Harris, Alfred Sherman, John Biffen and Geoffrey Howe.;Theirs was a long, gruelling fight, but in the mid-1970s, they found their ideal secret weapon. Within five years that weapon was running the country, and the rest is history, retold here in a new way. Richard Cockett is the author of "Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement and the Manipulation of the Press", and "David Astor and the 'Observer'".

General

Imprint:	Fontana Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1995
Authors:	Richard Cockett
Dimensions:	197 x 132mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	400
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-637586-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > British & Irish history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	0-00-637586-3
Barcode:	9780006375869

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