Margaret Thatcher's Revolution: How It Happened And What It Meant

by Subroto, Roy; Clarke, John; Roy, Subroto

• ISBN13: 9780826484840
• ISBN10: 0826484840
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

In Britain, the erosion of confidence was not sudden but reflected the gradual acceptance of a pessimistic interpretation of history. The Great Victorians had been dismissed as hypocrites. The imperial story was to be seen merely as one of racism and incompetence. Solutions were not looked for within Britain's values of capacities. Things had come to pass where it was virtually impossible to mention the word liberty in the Ancient universities. This important new book is premised upon a belief that through one person--Margaret Thatcher--Britain succeeded in completely transforming itself by correctly comprehending the malaise, bringing it to an end, and restoring itself through an assertion of British values and resourcefulness. To use Keynes's memorable phrase, the aim of the book is to study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. At a time when the Conservative party is floundering and Tory political philosophy is once again struggling to articulate itself, this book has quite exceptional importance and significance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Editorial Introduction	1	(161)
1 On the inner culture of the Tories	12	(13)
Norman Tebbit
2 Britain restored in the world	25	(12)
Malcolm Rind
COMMENT
George P. Shultz
3 Britain and Europe: repenting at leisure	37	(13)
Christopher Booker
4 Inflation, unemployment and the pound	50	(17)
Patrick Minford
COMMENT
Milton Friedman
5 Property rights, incentives and privatization	67	(15)
Martin Ricketts
6 The family versus the counter-culture	82	(40)
Patricia Morgan
7 Government control of school education	122	(13)
Dennis O'Keeffe
8 Market solutions for school education	135	(18)
James Tooley & James Stanfield
9 Private funding of science and higher education	153	(9)
Terence Kealey
10 Creating alternatives to the NHS	162	(15)
David Marsland
11 Thatcher's Conservatism: a hypothesis	177	(13)
Norman Barry
12 Back from the future	190	(9)
William Hague
Index	199