False promises: The failure of conservative economics

Book

Fourteen papers examine the performance of the conservative governments of advanced economies over the last two decades. Contributions focus on how to measure economic performance; Canada's economic performance--inequality, poverty, and growth; the provincial performance in the case of British Columbia; the political economy of deficit-phobia; a new direction for macroeconomic policy; monetary and fiscal policy in the 1980s; the fall of communism and the future of socialism; a historical perspective of women in the labor force, 1911-86; the conservative attack on labor unions; regional trading blocs and Canadian trade policy; urban growth in Greater Vancouver; sustainable social development; and social services and restraint. Contributors are economists. Allen is at the University of British Columbia. Rosenbluth is at the University of British Columbia. Index.

• Publisher: New Star Books
• Place of publication: Vancouver
• Publication date: 1992-01-01
• Language: English