There is no alternative (shortened as TINA ) was a slogan of
which Margaret Thatcher , the radical British Prime Minister was
fond. In economics , and political economy , it has come to mean
that despite capitalism's problems , "there is no alternative"
to the status quo of their economic system and neoliberalism .
This is the central slogan of neoliberalism , arguing that free
markets , free trade , and capitalist globalization are the only
way in which modern societies can go, as any deviation from
their doctrine is certain to lead to disaster. Susan George, a
prominent critic of neoliberal globalization disagrees by saying
"TATA!" (There Are Thousands of Alternatives), which also refers
to the main political slogan of the alter-globalization
movement: "another world is possible". In the early nineties,
Francis Fukuyama wrote a book named The End of History and the
Last Man, which in a similar strain argued that liberal
democracy had triumphed over communism and the historical
struggle between political sys