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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 estimate, will cost us more than $3 trillion. "Stiglitz and Bilmes have clearly demonstrated the need for Congress and the administration to ensure that those making sacrifices today will see those sacrifices honored in the future."—Dave W. Gorman, executive director, Disabled American Veterans
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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.
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- PublisherAllen Lane/Penquin Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846141311
- ISBN 13 9781846141317
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "This devastating reckoning of the true costs of the war holds them to account. Here renowned economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes expose the gigantic expenses that never made it into official calculations: From bloated private contracts to staggering interest payments, from the soaring price of oil to the long-term care of veterans and damage to the world economy as a whole. This clear-eyed, angry and chilling account shows how we will all pay the price for a disastrous conflict for many years. Offering tough reforms for the future, it will change the way you think about the cost of war." Near new condition, index, 312p. . 500gms weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages. Seller Inventory # 23319
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Australian ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), pages lightly toned, minor edgewear jacket (tiny tear bottom corner), front cover corner tip creased. 311 pp. Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes provide a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war - quite apart from the tragic human toll - estimated by the Bush administration at $50 billion, but which underestimates the real figure up to 60 times. Exposes the gigantic expenses that have not been accounted for, including replacing military equipment (being degraded at six times the peacetime rate), but also the cost of lifetime caring for thousands of wounded veterans. Shifting to a global perspective, they investigate the cost in lives and damage within Iraq and the Middle East generally. With chilling precision, they calculate what the money spent on the war could have produced had it been further invested in economic growth and infrastructure building. Australian edition. Seller Inventory # 13795
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