Nick Macpherson

The costly legacy of Margaret Thatcher’s monetarism

As Thatcher’s economic private secretary in the first years of her government, Tim Lankester is well qualified to analyse the controversial policy and its effects

Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, October 1980. [Geoff Bruce/Central Press/Getty Images]
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  • Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy

    Tim Lankester

    Policy Press, pp. 192, £19

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