In the Long Run We're All Dead - The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

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

General

Imprint:	University of British Columbia Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Timothy Lewis
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Sewn
Pages:	288
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7748-0998-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > General Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > General
LSN:	0-7748-0998-1
Barcode:	9780774809986

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