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Ever since Thatcher's Teesside stroll, breathing life into blighted areas has met with mixed success. Understanding what might work is a step in the right direction. Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Econ... Read more...
03 October 2015
Today's British economy is the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. The governments that succeeded her did not change the broad lines of her policies. John Major privatised the railways. Labour lightly regulated the City of Lond... Read more...
11 April 2013
Article by John Van Reenen Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy lives on. This column provides a markedly balanced assessment of her mistakes and achievements. Most pressingly, Thatcherism left the UK failing to properly... Read more...
John Van Reenen analyses the economic legacy of Margaret Thatcher. In the late 1970s, when the UK was behind other developed nations in terms of material wellbeing, her supply side policies spurred economic revival. Ther... Read more...
10 April 2013
The consensus in 2000 of a team of American, British and Canadian scholars working under the auspices of America’s National Bureau of Economic Research, and Britain’s Centre for Economic Performance and its Institut... Read more...
09 April 2013
John Van Reenen, head of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said: "The changes [under Thatcher] helped shift Britain from a century of relative decline to three decades where we c... Read more...
08 April 2013
Margaret Thatcher's demolition of the trade unions in the 1980s has helped to keep Britons in work through the latest financial crisis, leading economists suggested yesterday...Economists have been baffled by the conundr... Read more...
06 April 2013