The three trillion dollar war the true cost of the Iraq Conflict

Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes cast a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of carin...

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Main Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Other Authors: Bilmes, Linda
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Is it really three trillion?
  • The costs to the nation's budget
  • The true cost of caring for our veterans
  • Costs of the war that the government doesn't pay
  • The macroeconomic effects of the war
  • Global consequences
  • Exiting Iraq
  • Learning from our mistakes : reforms for the future.