There is no alternative

There is no alternative

There is no alternative (shortened as TINA) was a slogan of which Margaret Thatcher, the radical British Prime Minister was fond. In economics, politics, 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.cite news | first=Robert W. McChesney| last=| coauthors= | title=Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/19990401.htm | work =Monthly Review | pages = | accessdate = 2008-05-26 | language = ] [ [http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/histneol.htm A Short History of Neoliberalism] Susan George] 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 systems was over (though there could still be future events).

References

ee also

*End of History
* See Economic system for different forms of economic systems.
* Neoliberalism
* Privatization
* Welfare State
* Pensée unique
* World Economic Forum
* World Social Forum

External links

* [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/results.asp?ps=500&w=%22There%20is%20no%20alternative%22 Margaret Thatcher's] key speeches searched for "there is no alternative". There were numerous uses with variations.


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