A Right-wing populist, in an oil-rich province, Ralph Klein has been a one-man wrecking crew, dismantling Alberta's public sector and remaking the province into a freewheeling, capitalist paradise. This book re-examines Klein's Alberta after a decade of deficit-slashing, tax--cutting -conservatism.

First elected in 1993 on a platform of "common sense revolution," a decade later Ralph Klein's Conservative party remains in power, but the gloss is off its "revolution." Deficits and debt have been eliminated, but new problems and new issues have arisen, such as energy deregulation and water...

Subtle insights into Japan that are different from the usual catalog of descriptions and analyses.