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Timothy Lewis - In the Long Run We´re All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint - 9780774809986 - V9780774809986
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In the Long Run We´re All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint

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Description for In the Long Run We´re All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint Hardback. A superb analysis of how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JPQB; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 499.

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: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint offers the first comprehensive scholarly account of this vital public policy issue. Lewis deftly ... Read more

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 legacy of the Mulroney administrations, and the emergence of the new “politics of the surplus.” It will be of great interest to those engaged with Canadian politics, political economy, and public policy, as well as to participants in policy processes and the informed public.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774809986
SKU
V9780774809986
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Timothy Lewis
Timothy Lewis has a PhD in political science and a law degree from the University of Toronto. He has worked in both the private and the public sectors.

Reviews for In the Long Run We´re All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint
Not long ago, deficits were seen as positive things in Canada. Now deficits are seen as evil. Timothy Lewis has just published a fascinating book which traces the transformations of Canadian attitudes. [It] is an illuminating account of the interaction between ideas and politics, between economic theories and political limitations, possibilities or necessities."
Graham Fraser
Toronto Star
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