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

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

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作 者:Joseph E Stiglitz , Linda J Bilmes

出 版 社:W. W. Norton & Co.

出版时间:2008-02-22

I S B N:9780393067019

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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 investigate the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Finally, with the chilling precision of an actuary, the authors measure what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Written in language as simple as the details are disturbing, this book will forever change the way we think about the war.

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Joseph Stiglitz was Chief Economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors. He is currently University Professor of the Columbia Business School and Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the author of the best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, and Making Globalization Work, all published by Penguin. Linda J. Bilmes is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University and has written widely on the cost of the Iraq War, veterans issues, and federal workforce reform. During the Clinton administration, she served as Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe,and the Atlantic Monthly. In 1998 she coauthored Gebt uns das Risiko Zuruck (Give Us Back the Risk), a best-seller in Germany. Her forthcoming book (The People Factor) is on civil service reform. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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