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

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

The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
Joseph Stiglitz, Linda Bilmes. W.W. Norton, 2008

Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz (Business/SIPA/ Economics) and Linda Bilmes (Harvard) casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer as well as on the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. The book shows what the U.S. taxpayer's money could have produced if it had been invested in the growth of the U.S. economy.