There is no alternative

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There is no alternative

There is no alternative (shortened as TINA) was a slogan often used by the Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In economics, politics, and political economy, it has come to mean that "there is no alternative" to neoliberalism - that free markets, free trade, and capitalist globalization are the best or the only way for modern societies to develop.[citation needed]

The phrase was used to signify that global capitalism is the only system possible and that debate about this is over. One commenter characterized the meaning of the slogan as "Globalized capitalism, so called free-markets and free trade were the best ways to build wealth, distribute services and grow a society’s economy. Deregulation’s good, if not God."[1] Opponents argue that alternatives exist, such as the social market economy[citation needed]




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  1. ^ Laura, Flanders (April 12, 2013). "At Thatcher’s Funeral, Bury TINA, Too". The Nation. 

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