Table of Contents
1 Introduction and Overview
2 The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation
3 The United States: Can the 1990s Fiscal Rebalancing be Repeated?
4 Europe's Public Debt Challenge
5 Japan's Fiscal Woes
6 Recommendations
Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley; and formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. CEPR Research Fellow
