Northern Light: Lessons for America from Canada's Fiscal Fix
Published on 21. February 2013
172 pages
978-1-4566-1028-9 (ISBN)
Description
As the US wrestles with its growing fiscal crisis, Northern Light examines what lessons Americans and their political leaders might draw from how Canada in the 1990s slew its deficit dragon, balanced the budget, fixed public pensions and social welfare and in so doing helped forge a national consensus in favour of responsible public finances that endures to this day.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- preface
- executive summary
- introduction
- PART I - How the United States Created Its Fiscal Crisis
- chapter 1
- First, Admit There's a Problem: The United States' Unsustainable Fiscal Trajectory
- PART II - Canada's Crisis in the 1990s: Parallels to the United States Today
- chapter 2
- Spitting Distance from the Debt Wall
- chapter 3
- Fiscal Reform: Unsung Provincial Heroes
- chapter 4
- Entitlement Reform and Decentralization: Additional Lessons to be Considered
- PART III - How the United States Can Solve Its Fiscal Crisis
- chapter 5
- Fiscal Fitness: What Washington Would Look Like on a Canadian Diet
- Endnotes
- author information
