 Macmillan is best remembered for the "affluent society", which he inherited rather than created in the late 1950s, but chancellors came and went and by the early 1960s economic policy was "nothing short of a shambles", while his achievements in foreign policy made little difference to the lives of the public.By the time he left office, largely unlamented at the time, he was associated not with prosperity but with "anachronism and decay".D.