Thatcher saw economics as a means to change national culture

Evidence

“[I]t isn’t that I set out on economic policies; it’s that I set out really to change the approach, and changing the economics is the means of changing that approach. If you change the approach you really are after the heart and soul of the nation. Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.” Quoted in Ronald Butt, “Mrs. Thatcher: The First Two Years,” Sunday Times, May 3, 1981, http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104475. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 635

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Arguably the single most direct statement of the book’s thesis from the actor herself — that economic policy was not about economics but about reshaping the soul of the nation.
• XREF: connects to: Reduction to economics enables creating a new culture

Broader Connections

• Reduction to economics enables creating a new culture #expands (0.95)