Sentences with phrase «post-war economic consensus»
It is surely not a coincidence that 1979 marked the end of the post-war economic consensus and the rise of neoliberalism, with its rallying cry «greed is good».
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The post-war consensus, which had bound managers, unions and politicians in symbiotic lock - step — an outgrowth of the war - time economy - was straining like a pressure cooker under the heat of economic reality.
Yet today, millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic have good reason to wonder why governments led us into the economic maelstrom, and a good deal of Gideon Rachman's admirable book deals with the conflicts and forces that took us from the relatively benign world of post-war consensus to where we are today.
Good looking, charming and superb at handling the media and rallying the Tory Party machine Parkinson was the perfect front man for a radical government that was intent on transforming Britain and shattering the post-war political and economic consensus.