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In the Long Run We're All Dead - The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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In the Long Run We're All Dead - The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Canadian politics in the 1990s were characterized by an unwavering
focus on the deficit. At the beginning of the decade, it seemed
that fiscal deficits were intractable - a fait accompli of Canadian
politics. Yet by the end of the decade, Ottawa had taken remarkable
actions to eliminate its budgetary shortfalls and had successfully
eradicated its deficits. How such a radical change of political
course came to pass is still not well understood. In the Long Run
We're All Dead offers the first comprehensive scholarly account of
this vital public policy issue. Lewis deftly analyzes the history
of deficit finance from before Confederation through Canada's
postwar Keynesianism to the retrenchment of the Mulroney and
Chretien years. In doing so, he illuminates how the political
conditions for Ottawa's deficit elimination in the 1990s
materialized after over twenty consecutive years in the red, and
how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the
emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets. This
important book provides scholars and students of Canadian politics
with a new framework by which to understand the adoption of
government policy, the economic and fiscal le
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