Thursday, 2 April 2009

1979 - 2009: Thatcherism R.I.P?

Link to the article: Channel 4

Last Modified: 02 Apr 2009
By: Keme Nzerem

The world hopes today saw the birth of an economic recovery. More4 News asks if it also marks the end of an economic ideology that has prevailed in the West for the last 30 years?

So, will future historians define today as the end of Thatcherism?

The supremacy of a lightly regulated financial sector, the belief in market forces - the ideology, call it Thatcherism or Reaganomics, that dominated Britain and America for 30 years - did it all end?