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Le Canada et l’austérité expansionniste dans les années quatre-vingt-dix : un « succès » macroéconomique à revisiter ?

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  • Charles, Sébastien

    (Université Paris 8, LED)

  • Dallery, Thomas

    (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, TVES)

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This paper studies the evolution and sustainability of public debt in Canada thanks to the accounting methodology put forward by Pasinetti (1998). We show to what extent the austerity policies, which have been applied in the first half of the 1990s by the Canadian government, led to believe to what has been called by some economists the expansionist austerity. Thus, we unveil a large body of “happy” circumstances that prevented the surge of economic recession. When looking at these different elements, we precise the reasons why the Canadian experience should not constitute a role model to be blindly followed as far as fiscal consolidation is concerned. Résumé - Dans cet article nous étudions l’évolution et la soutenabilité de l’endettement public au Canada à l’aide de la méthodologie comptable proposée par Pasinetti (1998). Nous montrons dans quelle mesure la politique d’austérité décidée par le gouvernement canadien lors de la première moitié des années quatre-vingt-dix a pu faire croire à ce que certains économistes nomment l’austérité expansionniste. Ainsi, nous dévoilons un large faisceau de circonstances « bienheureuses » ayant empêché une récession économique. Au regard de ces différents éléments, nous précisons pourquoi le Canada ne devrait pas constituer un exemple à suivre aveuglément en matière de consolidation budgétaire.

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  • Charles, Sébastien & Dallery, Thomas, 2013. "Le Canada et l’austérité expansionniste dans les années quatre-vingt-dix : un « succès » macroéconomique à revisiter ?," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 89(3), pages 207-230, Septembre.
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