Governments need to create balance sheets that properly reflect assets and liabilities, and to understand their future obligations and revenue prospects. Net Worth – both today and for the future – should be the measure of financial strength and success. Long term government finances around the world are already under severe pressure. Failure to act – soon - will place enormous, perhaps unbearable, strains on the global economic system, and on democratic political institutions around the world. The facts, and the solutions, are non-partisan, and so is this book. Responsible leaders of any political persuasion need to understand the issues and the tools that can enable them to deliver policy within these constraints. weiterlesen