Three Trillion Dollar War The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Name: Three Trillion Dollar War The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
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ISBN: 9780393334173

ISBN-10: 0393334171

ISBN-13: 9780393334173

Edition: 2008

Authors: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda J. Bilmes, Linda Bilmes

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"This is a catalog [of costs] the Bush team never looked at. It's a catalog that they still don't want you to see."--James Galbraith America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due--including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability benefits and health care. In this sobering study, Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard University's Linda J. Bilmes reveal a wide range of costs that have been hidden from U.S. taxpayers and left out of the debate about our involvement in Iraq. That involvement, the authors conservatively…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Joseph Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia University.

Linda J. Bilmes, of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is an expert in government finance. She is a former assistant secretary and chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of Commerce.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Is It Really Three Trillion?



The Costs to the Nation's Budget



The True Cost of Caring for Our Veterans



Costs of War That the Government Doesn't Pay



The Macroeconomic Effects of the Conflicts



Global Consequences



Exiting Iraq



Learning from Our Mistakes: Reforms for the Future


Afterword


Appendices


President's Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the Emergency Appropriations Act


Evolving DOD Web Sites for Operation Iraqi Freedom


On Methodologies


List of Commonly Used Acronyms


Notes


Index