ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: THE PLACES IN-BETWEEN ; CHAPTER 2. FRAMING THE ISSUES: NORMATIVE DISCOURSES; POLITICAL IMPERATIVES ; CHAPTER 3. PUBLIC PENSIONS: RECONCILING FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY WITH INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY ; CHAPTER 4. REFORMING THE U.S. HOME MORTGAGE INTEREST DEDUCTION ; CHAPTER 5. TRADE LIBERALIZATION: GRADUALISM, RECIPROCITY, REVERSIBILITY ; CHAPTER 6. AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT: UNRAVELLING THE TRANSITIONAL GAINS TRAP ; CHAPTER 7. LIBERALIZING IMMIGRATION POLICY: THE GAINS AND STRAINS OF ACCOMMODATING MORE AND DIVERSE NEWCOMERS ; CHAPTER 8. CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY: MANAGING MORE HEAT IN THE WORLD'S KITCHENS ; CHAPTER 9. INSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND DEVELOPMENTS: THE PERILS OF UTOPIANISM ; CHAPTER 10. CONCLUSION: TAKING TRANSITION COSTS SERIOUSLY ; NOTES ; INDEX

Winner of the Donner Prize for the best book on public policy by a Canadian in 2014 "The book explores rationales for transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts, providing examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform. Dealing with Losers is an invaluable essay on the role and importance of compromise." This is a book that every elected and unelected official at whatever level of government should read." -The Donner Prize jury

Selling point: Winner of the Donner Prize for the best book on public policy by a Canadian in 2014 Selling point: Emphasizes the importance, in political economy terms of addressing the transition costs associated with major policy changes Selling point: Analyzes a number of widely disparate policy reform contexts from trade liberalization to agricultural supply management, immigration, and climate change policy Selling point: Illustrates the importance of transition cost mitigation strategies in advancing a generally beneficial reform agenda Selling point: Provides tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform

Michael J. Trebilcock is Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto School of Law. He specializes in law and economics, international trade law, competition law, economic and social regulation, and contract law and theory. He has won awards for his work, including the 1989 Owen Prize by the Foundation for Legal Research for his book, The Common Law of Restraint of Trade, which was chosen as the best law book in English published in Canada in the past two years. He has authored: The Limits of Freedom of Contract and co-authored The Regulation of International Trade; Exploring the Domain of Accident Law: Taking the Facts Seriously; Economic Shocks: Defining a Role for Government; The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy; and Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress (co-authored with Ron Daniels). He was a Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and a Global Law Professor at New York University Law School. In 1987, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1999, he was elected President of the American Law and Economics Association. In 2008, he undertook a review of the Legal Aid Program in Ontario for the Attorney-General. In 2007, he received the Ontario Attorney General's Mundell Medal for contributions to Law and Letters, and in 2010, he received the Ontario Premier's Discovery Award for the Social Sciences. He holds an LLB from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and an LLM from the University of Adelaide.

Selling point: Winner of the Donner Prize for the best book on public policy by a Canadian in 2014 Selling point: Emphasizes the importance, in political economy terms of addressing the transition costs associated with major policy changes Selling point: Analyzes a number of widely disparate policy reform contexts from trade liberalization to agricultural supply management, immigration, and climate change policy Selling point: Illustrates the importance of transition cost mitigation strategies in advancing a generally beneficial reform agenda Selling point: Provides tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform