Thatcherism

noun

/ˈθætʃərɪzəm/

[uncountable]

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the political and economic policies of Margaret Thatcher when she was Britain's Prime Minister. It is therefore especially associated with the 1980s in Britain. Some British people think that Thatcherism was good for the British economy because of the emphasis it placed on private enterprise (= the idea that business and industry should be controlled by private individuals or companies, not by the state), privatization, a reduction in inflation and government spending, and the idea that people should help themselves rather than relying on the state to help them. An opposite view is that Thatcherism led to the loss of Britain's traditional industries, a greater gap between the rich and the poor, more people without jobs, and a period in which many British people came to care less about each other than about making money.撒切尔主义：撒切尔夫人担任英国首相时的政治和经济政策。因此，它尤其与英国的1980年代有关。一些英国人认为，撒切尔主义对英国经济有好处，因为它偏重于私营企业（即工商业应由私人或公司而不是国家控制的观念），私有化，降低通货膨胀和政府支出，以及人们应该自救而不是依靠国家来帮助他们的想法。一种相反的观点是，撒切尔主义导致了英国传统产业的丧失，贫富之间的差距越来越大，失业人数增加以及许多英国人不再关心彼此而不是赚钱的时期。