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Which was why he became Margaret Thatcher's favorite economist. [fact]

Bauer's international reputation was as a propagandist for economic liberalism, not as an eminent economist; which was why he became Margaret Thatcher's favorite economist. Arthur Shenfield is presented by Hartwell as an "eminent economist," but in the postwar period the measure of eminence had become publication in the leading English-language academic journals, and there is no trace of this achievement for Shenfield.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 418