TINA

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TINA is an acronym for Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture. TINA was a joint initiative of the telecom industry to combine telecommunications concepts with IT concepts.

In economics, politics, and political economy, the acronym TINA refers to a slogan attributed to Margaret Thatcher, once prime minister of Britain, i.e., that "There Is No Alternative" to global free-market capitalism. This is the central slogan of economic liberalism, arguing that free markets, free trade, and capitalist globalization are the only way in which modern societies can go.

Susan George, a prominent critic of neoliberal globalization disagrees by saying "TATA!" (There Are Thousand Alternatives), which also refers to the main political slogan of the alter-globalization movement: "another world is possible".

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• see Economic system for a different forms of economic systems
• World Social Forum