Fiscal Choices takes a sober look at economic dimensions of pandemic

The following is an excerpt from Michael M. Atkinson and Haizen Mou's, Fiscal Choices: Canada After the Pandemic, one of the five finalists for this year's Donner Prize, the best public policy book of the year.

Authors Mou Haizhen and Michael Atkinson on why they wrote this book: 'We wrote Fiscal Choices out of a genuine concern for Canada’s capacity to cope with both short-term economic shocks and long term-fiscal challenges.'Book cover and photograph courtesy of the University of Toronto Press

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BY MICHAEL M. ATKINSON, HAIZHEN MOU

April 21, 2025

For most of us, the COVID-19 pandemic came as a shock, and shock is the word that best describes COVID-19’s effect on the Canadian economy. Like most other countries, Canada plunged into recession in early 2020 and thankfully emerged rapidly the following year. In its wake...

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