Yes, we have to get economics back into proportion, as one aspect of politics, important but never really the main thing. This may be unfashionable, indeed anti-fashionable, because it is the current intellectual fashions which have wrought so much havoc in this country.


Speech at Birmingham, 19 October 1974; Margaret Thatcher website

Keith Joseph Quotes

Yes, we have to get economics back into proportion, as one aspect of politics, important but never really the main thing. This may be unfashionable,...

Yes, we have to get economics back into proportion, as one aspect of politics, important but never really the main thing. This may be unfashionable,...

Yes, we have to get economics back into proportion, as one aspect of politics, important but never really the main thing. This may be unfashionable,...

Yes, we have to get economics back into proportion, as one aspect of politics, important but never really the main thing. This may be unfashionable,...