How Two Decades of Legislation Reveal the Thatcher Revolution (opens in new tab)

When Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979, she promised to “roll back the frontiers of the state”. Over the next decade, earnings inequality in Britain rose sharply. Historians and economists often link these trends through a few emblematic laws or strikes. In an alternative approach Maksymilian Łudziński takes Acts of Parliament as data to