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One of the major legacies of the ‘new right’ ascendancy was the denial of choices about the future. As Margaret Thatcher asserted frequently in the early 1980s: ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) to increased reliance on market mechanisms. What once had to be asserted subsequently became conventional policy wisdom. We call this the TINA syndrome (see Watson et al, 2003). Authors such as Thomas Frank (2000) have shown this is now part of wider ‘market populism’ with deep roots in civil society.
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Buchanan, J., Jakubauskas, M. (2010). The Political Economy of Work and Skill in Australia: Insights From Recent Applied Research. In: Bryson, J. (eds) Beyond Skill. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230291270_3
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