Table of Contents

Preface

1 Fiscal Politics

2 Deficit Finance in Historical Perspective

3 The Political Economy of Economic Decline

4 Persisting Keynesian Conceptualizations of Deficit Finance, 1975-84

5 Restructuring Power Relations

6 The Priority of Structural Reform, 1984-93

7 Economic Insecurity and the Political Conditions for Deficit Elimination

8 Only Nixon Can Go to China, 1993-8

9 Maynard Where Art Thou?

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

In The Long Run We’re All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint addresses how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.

About the Author

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

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."
*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.
*Canadian Journal of Political Science*