Paradoxically, she made accountable and authoritative government possible again partly by curtailing the state’s role in the economy. Her reforms laid the foundations for a period during which Britain’s per capita wealth grew faster than most of its competitors’.
反常的是，她之所以能让政府重新变得负责而权威，部分是通过削弱国家在经济中的作用实现的。她的改革为一个时代打下了基础，英国的人均财富增长比大部分竞争对手都要快。