"there is no alternative" (TINA) Concepts

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words

. Chris Toulouse, “Thatcherism, Class Politics, and Urban Development in London,” Critical Sociology 18, no. 1 (1991): 70. 64. A. Merrifield, “The Canary Wharf Debacle: From ‘TINA’—There Is No Alternative—to ‘THEMBA’—There Must Be an Alternative,” Environment & Planning A 25 (1993): 1256. 65. Warren Hoge, “Blair’s ‘Rebranded’ Britain Is No Museum,” New York

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Mark Blyth · 24 Apr 2013 · 576pp · 105,655 words

austerity’s luster has yet to fade. Two answers present themselves to us. The first is a variant of the line popularized by Mrs. Thatcher—“there is no alternative” (TINA). In light of the previous chapter, you might have the impression that this is exactly the case being made in this book. After all, it

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fiscal tightening.”127 Raising taxes in a recession, as noted already, is said to simply make things worse. As such, a new form of TINA returns—there is no alternative to cuts. The same expectation-based mechanisms as before are on display in this later paper but are more fully specified. Thus, in the absence

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high-debt occasions, such as the aftermath of World War II, growth is not going to make the Eurozone’s pile of debt disappear. Rather, there is no alternative (TINA) to fiscal adjustment. Happily, “many even sharp reductions of budget deficits have been accompanied and immediately followed by sustained growth rather than recessions even in

No Such Thing as Society

by Andy McSmith · 19 Nov 2010 · 613pp · 151,140 words

to resign rather than accept the cuts in the defence budget demanded by the Treasury. But, in public at least, Thatcher was unflinching. The acronym Tina – for ‘There is No Alternative’ – was already in circulation. Her speech to the annual Conservative Party conference that year contained one of her most memorable lines, crafted by her

The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau · 3 Aug 2016 · 586pp · 160,321 words

fall into place in due time. Crises might erupt, but they might be useful to follow through with the next steps at a time when “there is no alternative” (TINA principle). Such a fait accompli strategy was part of the European integration process from the beginning, but it also estranged the project from the general

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about current status quo is great and the situation bleak, can politicians clearly credibly communicate to the public that changes are needed.22 The famous TINA (There Is No Alternative) principle enunciated by Great Britain’s Margaret Thatcher also applies to structural reforms. Unpleasant choices can only be made when the situation is really desperate

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terrorism, 36, 382 Tesobono crisis (Mexico), 292 Thatcher, Margaret, 92, 273; on single European market, 274; TINA (There Is No Alternative) principle of, 145 Thorning-Schmidt, Helle, 272 Tietmeyer, Hans, 132, 212, 316, 369 time-inconsistency problem, 87–88 TINA (There Is No Alternative) principle, 145 Tirole, Jean, 72 Tobin, James, 188 Tocqueville, Alexis de, 42, 43 Tomasi di Lampedusa

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky · 9 Jul 2015

, any more than one should be surprised that in standard doctrine the instituted form of “globalization” should be depicted as an inexorable process to which “there is no alternative” (TINA), as Margaret Thatcher thoughtfully declared. One early UNCTAD proposal was a program for stabilizing commodity prices, routine practice within the industrial countries by means of

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“domesticating the expectations of the majority,” who abandon any thought of “alternatives different to the demands of the powerful.” They’ve learned the lesson that There Is No Alternative—TINA, as it’s called—Maggie Thatcher’s cruel phrase. The idea is that there is no alternative—that’s now the familiar slogan of the

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, and private corporatism, which is a form of privatized tyranny. Two of these systems have collapsed. The third is alive and flourishing under the banner TINA—There Is No Alternative to the emerging system of state corporate mercantilism disguised with various mantras like globalization and free trade. A century ago, during the early stages of

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of the post-war economic order should be accompanied by a significant attack on substantive democracy—freedom, popular sovereignty, and human rights—under the slogan TINA (There Is No Alternative). It’s kind of a farcical mimicry of vulgar Marxism. The slogan, needless to say, is self-serving fraud. The particular socioeconomic order that’s

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown

by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words

rarely as solid as they have been there portrayed, and this, too, has direct bearing upon the Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. The mantra that “There Is No Alternative” (colloquially, TINA) has been a very powerful incantation in the neoliberal rucksack; as we have already suggested in chapter 2, the role of ignorance looms quite large

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, Richard Thatcher, Margaret The Theatre and Its Double (Artaud) Theory of the Leisure Class (Veblen) There Is No Alternative (TINA) Thirteen Commandments Thirteenth Amendment This Time Is Different (Rogoff and Reinhart) Thoma, Mark Thomas, Bill Thurn, Max The Time Machine (Wells) TINA (There Is No Alternative) Tkacik, Maureen Tobin, James Tobin tax “Too Big to Bail” (Ferguson and Johnson) Toxic

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Alex Hyde-White · 24 Oct 2016 · 515pp · 142,354 words

is being sacrificed but, in many ways, confidence in its democracy. The Germans and other leaders in the eurozone have put forward the idea that “there is no alternative” (TINA) to their draconian policies. I have explained how there are—alternatives that would even make the creditors better off. In this concluding chapter, I want

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, 300 and new financial system, 274–76, 283–84 telecoms, 55 Telmex, 369 terrorism, 319 Thailand, 113 theory of the second best, 27–28, 48 “there is no alternative” (TINA), 306, 311–12 Tocqueville, Alexis de, xiii too-big-to-fail banks, 360 tourism, 192, 286 trade: and contractionary expansion, 209 US push for, 323

How Will Capitalism End?

by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words

(see above, Footnote 11), for rigidity being replaced with flexibility. Over two decades, globalization as a discourse gave birth to a new pensée unique, a TINA (There Is No Alternative) logic of political economy for which adaptation to the ‘demands’ of ‘international markets’ is both good for everybody and the only possible policy anyway. Measured

Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City

by Anna Minton · 24 Jun 2009 · 309pp · 96,434 words

should work. But when all the evidence shows that this fails to happen, those in favour of this growth model fall back on ‘TINA’, the acronym for ‘There is No Alternative’. This largely forgotten term was once a well-known and much-loved Thatcherite mantra, deployed in the same vein as other resounding calls to

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now run by a mix of private companies and individual private landlords. And if anyone does begin to question it, the inevitable response is to fall back on ‘TINA’ – there is no alternative. If the popularity of central Manchester is evidence enough that many people like these places and vote with their feet, a proper

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development which played such a large part in bringing the crisis about. The book ended on a positive note, suggesting that that the era of TINA – ‘There is No Alternative’ – was passing, paving the way for a more civic minded and democratic approach to the city. Sadly, there is little sign of that so far

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang · 26 Dec 2007 · 334pp · 98,950 words

who spearheaded the neo-liberal counter-revolution, once famously dismissed her critics saying that ‘There is no alternative’. The spirit of this argument – known as TINA (There Is No Alternative) – permeates the way globalization is portrayed by the Bad Samaritans. The Bad Samaritans like to present globalization as an inevitable result of relentless developments in