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What then has emerged from the preceding discussion? How does this investigation and analysis develop existing scholarship? What remains to be thought about and fought over?
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David Lindsey, Athanasios Orphanides and Robert Rasche, ‘The Reform of October 1979: How It Happened and Why’, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April, Part 2 (2005) pp. 187–235.
See, for example, Michael Moran, The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation (Oxford, 2003).
See Michael Power, Audit Society: Rituals of Verification (Oxford, 1999).
Onora O’Neill, A Question of Trust (Cambridge, 2002), esp. pp. 43–59.
See, for example, M.J. Artis, and M.K. Lewis, ‘Inflation in the United Kingdom’ in V.E. Argy, and J.W. Nevile (eds) Inflation and Unemployment: Theory, Experience and Policy-making (London, 1985) pp. 200–220, at p. 213.
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (London, 2014, English translation): see, for example, pp. 26, 42, 98.
At the General Election the swing was 5.2 per cent and the margin of victory over Labour 6.9 per cent: see generally, David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1979 (London, 1980) Appendix 1.
John Kirk, Class, Culture and Social Change: On the Trail of the Working Class (Basingstoke, 2007) p. 55, discussing Stuart Hall’s views on Thatcherism.
Their share of the vote (43.9 per cent) was less than in 1970, for example (46.4 per cent): see Butler and Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1979, Appendix 1 and David Butler and Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, The British General Election of 1970 (London, 1971) p. 353.
See ibid. p. 402; David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of October 1974 (London, 1975) pp. 350/351;
David Butler and Donald Stokes, Political Change in Britain: The Evolution of Electoral Choice (2nd edn, London, 1974) pp. 206–208.
Ivor Crewe, ‘Has the Electorate become more Thatcherite?’ in R. Skidelsky (ed.) Thatcherism (London, 1988) p. 32.
See Mike Savage, Class Analysis and Social Transformation (Buckingham, 2000) pp. 31–33.
Fiona Devine, Affluent Workers Revisited: Privatism and the Working Class (Edinburgh, 1992) pp. 2/3.
Gordon Marshall et al. Social Class in Modern Britain (London, 1988) pp. 206, 267.
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Williamson, A. (2015). Conclusion. In: Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964–1979. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460264_8
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