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 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 20 consecutive years in the red, and how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.
- ISBN10 1283130971
- ISBN13 9781283130974
- Publish Date 1 January 2007 (first published 1 May 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint UBC Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 288
- Language English