The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House.Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts 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 caring for thousands of wounded veterans—for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, the authors investig…
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Weitere Autoren: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- ISBN: 978-0-393-06808-5
- EAN: 9780393068085
- Produktnummer: 34246037
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 578 KB
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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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