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SUMMARY:Thatcher\, scientist - Jon Agar (University College London)
DTSTART:20080131T163000Z
DTEND:20080131T180000Z
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CONTACT:Lauren Kassell
DESCRIPTION:Did it matter that Margaret Thatcher\, three times British pri
 me minister\, staunch opponent of socialism\, fervid proponent of markets 
 rather than governments as the agents of choice and change\, had trained a
 nd worked as a research scientist? In the immense literature on Thatcher a
 nd Thatcherism\, no author emphasizes\, or even discusses in any depth\, t
 he connection between Thatcher\, scientist\, and Thatcher\, politician. Th
 is paper reviews the evidence for a connection\, and offers an interpretat
 ion of an important episode in the formation of British science policy tha
 t\, I argue\, has broad repercussions for how historians might revise the 
 understandings of a saltation in twentieth-century political and economic 
 history.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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