This was not, as is often asserted now, caused by any deliberate political decision or by the influence of neo-liberal think-tanks and powerful economic interest-groups, but by the fact that the long post-war boom fell into a structural crisis, as Fordism ran up against its limits.
Pero no ocurrió por decisiones políticas arbitrarias o la influencia de los think tanks neoliberales o grupos de intereses económicos poderosos, sino debido a que la prolongada fase de auge del período de postguerra cayó en una profunda crisis estructural y el fordismo chocó con sus límites.