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Business Matters: Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy

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09/04/2013

Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy

A robust advocate of the free market, Margaret Thatcher had her admirers and her critics.

We assess Thatcher's economic legacy at home and abroad, speaking to those who knew her. Plus we're live in New Zealand, New York and Sydney with the latest in the world of work.

In today's Business Matters we assess the economic legacy of Margaret Thatcher, who died in London on Monday. A robust advocate of the free market, she had her admirers and she had her critics. We hear from the economist Will Hutton with a critique of Thatchers economic legacy for the UK but also for the rest of the world. We also talk to former Fed chairman, Paul Volcker - Mrs Thatcher went out of her way to pay him visits at the US central bank back in the 1980s, we find out what kind of impression did she make on him.

We're also live with William Cohan in New York, author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs came to rule the world, and we get views from New Zealand on Thatcherism's international legacy.

Plus we have an exclusive report from South Korea after North Korea shut down the joint industrial zone at Kaesong, a complex at which there's otherwise non existent joint economic activity between the two countries.

(Image: Margaret Thatcher. Credit: JOHNNY EGGITT/AFP/Getty Images)

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