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  2. There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

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    There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters is a 2008 biographical account of the premiership of Margaret Thatcher written by American author Claire Berlinski.. The title is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's fondness for the slogan "There is no alternative" which she used to describe her belief that despite capitalism's problems, "there is no alternative" to it as an economic ...

  3. There is no alternative - Wikipedia

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    The slogan was often used by Thatcher. [citation needed] [11] The phrase is used to signify Thatcher's claim that the market economy is the best, right and only system that works, and that debate about this is over. One critic characterized the meaning of the slogan as: "Globalised capitalism, so called free markets and free trade were the best ...

  4. Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher [nb 2] (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

  5. A Margaret Thatcher Quote for the Future of Banking - AOL

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    Sadly, Britain's former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher passed away Monday morning. In remembrance of the "Iron Lady," The Wall Street Journal ran a collection of some of Thatcher's most notable ...

  6. The myth that money supply controls inflation is being ...

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    Sir Tim Lankester was Margaret Thatcher’s first private secretary for economic affairs (from 1979 to 1981), and later the U.K. director on the boards of the IMF and World Bank. He is the author ...

  7. Britain Awake - Wikipedia

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    "Britain Awake" (also known as the Iron Lady speech) [1] was a speech made by British Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher at Kensington Town Hall, London, on 19 January 1976. The speech was strongly anti-Soviet , with Thatcher stating that the Soviet Union was "bent on world domination " and taking advantage of détente to make gains in ...

  8. Thatcherism - Wikipedia

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    Milton Friedman said that "Margaret Thatcher is not in terms of belief a Tory. She is a nineteenth-century Liberal". [10] Thatcher herself stated during a speech in 1983: "I would not mind betting that if Mr Gladstone were alive today he would apply to join the Conservative Party". [11]

  9. Bruges speech - Wikipedia

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    Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1987 The Bruges speech was given by British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to the College of Europe at the Belfry of Bruges , Belgium, on 20 September 1988. Thatcher was opposed to any moves to transition the European Economic Community (EEC) into a federal Europe that would take powers away from its members.