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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Lewis, Timothy. In the Long Run We're All Dead. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2007 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Timothy Lewis |
ISBN: | 0774850582 9780774850582 1283130971 9781283130974 |
OCLC Number: | 70772767 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) |
Contents: | Fiscal politics -- Deficit finance in historical perspective -- The political economy of economic decline -- Persisting Keynesian conceptualizations of deficit finance, 1975-84 -- Restructuring power relations -- The priority of structural reform, 1984-93 -- Economic insecurity and the political conditions for deficit elimination -- Only Nixon can go to China, 1993-8 -- Maynard where art thou? |
Responsibility: | Timothy Lewis. |
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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 * A thoughtful, detailed analysis of deficit politics and its relationship to the role of ideas in shaping both public policies and public perceptions of them ...[It is] an effective teaching and analytical tool for instructors and students of public policy. -- Geoffrey Hale * Canadian Journal of Political Science * Read more...


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