Thatcher’s answers to the growing industrial disorder of the 1970’s were “monetarism” to liquidate inflation, legal curbs on trade-union power, and privatization of bloated state-owned industries – “selling off the family silver” as former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called it. The aim of all three measures was to restore both state authority and economic dynamism.
撒切尔对20世纪70年代日益增长的工业失序的回答是“货币主义”以清算通货膨胀、合法地遏制工会力量以及私有化臃肿的国有产业——用前保守党首相麦克米伦的话说就是“卖家底”。这三项措施的目标是同时重建国家权威和经济活力。