Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Allan J. MacEachen xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. All Those Years: Practice and Purpose in Politics 3
7. Canada in the Age of the Visible Hand 21
8. Back to the Future: Reforming Social Policy in Canada 35
9. Proposals for a New National Policy 65
10. Lessons from the Canadian Slump of the 1990s1 92
11. Canadian Economic Growth: Perspective and Prospects 119
12. Realism and Moderation for the Public Good 137
13. For the Third Asking: Is there a Future for National Political Parties in Canada? 144
14. Debating the Public Good, with Afterthoughts 156
15. Notes 193
16. Contributors 205