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Abstract. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. In The Three Trillion Dollar War, 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 ...
Sep 17, 2008 · 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.
Nov 15, 2010 · 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 caring for thousands of wounded veterans--for the ...
Feb 17, 2008 · The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. Kindle Edition. 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.
The three trillion dollar war: the true cost of the Iraq conflict (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. pp. xvii. ISBN 978-0-393-06701-9. THIS BOOK is based on a paper that we presented in January 2006, in which we conservatively estimated that the cost of the war would be between $1 and $2 trillion.
A New York Times Bestseller '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, The Three Trillion Dollar War, The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, Joseph E Stiglitz, Linda J Bilmes, 9780393334173
Aug 26, 2008 · 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.
Feb 17, 2008 · 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 profess…
Apr 8, 2008 · In discussing his new book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, Joseph E. Stiglitz reveals a litany of costs—the vast majority financed through borrowing—that have been hidden from U.S. taxpayers and will continue to add up in the years ahead.
Dr. Stiglitz is co-author with Linda Bilmes of “The Three Trillion Dollar War: the True Cost of the Iraq Conflict,” just published by Norton. It’s an extremely timely and important book on the economics of this war. It tries to gauge the full costs to the U.S. of the prosecution of this war and goes well beyond the official statistics.
