Computer models and Thatcherist futures from monopolies to markets in British telecommunications

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s 1984 privatization of British Telecom was a landmark moment for neoliberalism. It served to popularize and vindicate the sale of state utilities around the world. This article shows how computer models of the future were central for British telecommunications’, and...

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Main Author: Ward, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020