James Freeman & Aled Davies 
A neoliberal revolution? [EPUB ebook] 
Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions

Soporte

This book examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to revolutionise Britain’s pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to abolish significant parts of the UK’s welfare state and replace these with privatised personal pensions. Revealing a government that veered between political caution and radicalism, the book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary changes that ministers salvaged from the wreckage of their reforms.
The book contributes to understanding of policy change, Thatcherism, and international neoliberalism by showing how major reforms to social security could reflect neoliberal thought and yet profoundly disappoint their architects.

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Introduction
Part I – The Neoliberal Vision
1 Neoliberalism and Thatcherism
2 Neoliberalism and the UK state in the 1970s
Part II – The First Term
3 The institutional inheritance
4 Pensions ‘ratchet’ and ‘burden’
Part III – Planning a Revolution, 1983-5
5 The personal portable pension
6 The abolition of SERPS?
Part IV – Implementation and Legacy
7 From revolution to evolution
8 Legacy
Conclusion

Sobre el autor

Lawrence Black is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Durham University

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 416 ● ISBN 9781526146519 ● Tamaño de archivo 1.1 MB ● Editorial Manchester University Press ● Ciudad Manchester ● País GB ● Publicado 2024 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 9509260 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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