that she had "never subscribed" to the theories of Milton Friedman. The episode ends with many of the economists involved in the ill-fated attempts to manage the economy arriving at the same conclusion their predecessors had 30 years before: they could only prevent an economic disaster, not engineer growth. Other economists point out that other countries' successes had more to do with focusing on improving their education systems and industrial bases rather than large-scale attempts to engineer the entire nation's economy. Another economist and adviser to Margaret Thatcher, Alan Budd, worries that the whole Monetarist project might simply have been an attempt to reduce the economic and political power of the working class by raising unemployment and lowering wages, or as he puts it, "creating a reserve army of labour." Contributors Michael Posner, Economic Adviser to the Treasury 1967–69 Sir Donald MacDougall, Economic Director, N.E.D.C. 1962–64; Director-General, Department of Economic Affairs 1964–68 Reza Moghadam, London School of Economics Prof. Charles Goodhart, Economic Adviser to the Department of Economic Affairs 1965–67; Chief Economic Adviser on Monetary Policy, Bank of England 1980–85 Rt Hon. Tony Benn MP, member of Labour cabinet 1964–70 Brian Reading, Department of Economic Affairs 1964–66 Prof. Alan Budd, Economic Adviser to the Treasury 1970–74 Prof. Milton Friedman, Monetarist economist Sam Brittan, the Financial Times Lord Harris of Highcross, President of Institute of Economic Affairs Lord Joseph, member of Conservative cabinet 1970–74; Secretary of State for Industry 1979–81 Sir Alfred Sherman Gordon Pepper, City stockbroker 1962–90 Roy Adkin, insolvency practitioner, West Midlands Sir John Hoskyns, Chief Policy Advisor to Mrs Thatcher 1979–82 Brian Winterflood, executive director, County NatWest Securities 1986–88 Ernie Plumb, Chief Inspector, City of London Police Force (retired) Richard Turton, Partner, Insolvency Department, Touche Ross Part 4. 'Goodbye Mrs Ant' This part, originally broadcast on 2 July 1992, focuses on attitudes to nature and tells the story of the insecticide DDT, which was first seen as a saviour to humankind in the 1940s, only to be claimed as a part of the destruction of the entire ecosystem in the late 1960s. It also outlines how the sciences of entomology and ecology were transformed by political and economic pressures. The episode appears to be named after the 1959 film Goodbye, Mrs. Ant. Clips from the 1958 horror movie Earth vs. the Spider and the 1941 grasshopper cartoon Hoppity Goes to Town are also used. Insects were a huge