Title: In pursuit of the public good :
Authors: MacEachen, Allan J.; Kent, Tom.
Date: 1997
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Physical description: xii, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: F
Abstract: "In this book, leading experts and scholars of public policy present challenging views of the issues raised by the diminishing role of government. Using former cabinet minister and senator Allan J. MacEachen's career in public service as the organizing focus of the collection, contributors contrast the current retreat of government with the activist approach advocated by MacEachen and his generation. They examine whether the public good will be enhanced by continuing retreat or whether that trend is the consequence of policy mistakes that can and should be corrected."--Jacket.
Contents: All those years: practice and purpose in politics / Allan J. MacEachen -- Canada in the age of the visible hand / Michael Bliss -- Back to the future: reforming social policy in Canada / Ken Battle -- Proposals for a new national policy / Thomas J. Courchene -- Lessons from the Canadian slump of the 1990s / Pierre Fortin -- Canadian economic growth: perspective and prospects / Richard G. Harris -- Realism and moderation for the public good / James Schlesinger -- For the third asking: is there a future for national political parties? / R. Kenneth Carty -- Debating the public good, with afterthoughts / Tom Kent.
Notes: Papers and discussions from a conference held 4-6 July 1996 at St. Francis Xavier University to mark Allan J. MacEachen's 75th birthday and retirement from the Senate.