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Stiglitz on the (financial) cost of Iraq — Crooked Timber
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Stiglitz on the (financial) cost of Iraq. February 28, 2008. Joe Stiglitz, interviewed in the Guardian. About his book (co-authored with Linda Bilmes), “The Three Trillion Dollar War”. A couple of thoughts:. It’s not often that one gets to correct a Nobel Prize winner, so I will take the opportunity. Stiglitz is qutoed as saying that “Money spent on armaments is money poured down the drain”. This is actually the best. Three trillion dollars really could have solved a lot of world problems. For exampl...
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Optimo: July 2008
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Monday, July 28, 2008. Reining In the New Spoils System: A Proposal. Part I: Defining the Problem. I'm gonna introduce this topic with a favored boogeyman of the left - Halliburton. We all know the story: This all-purpose giant contracting conglomerate, formerly headed by Darth Cheney himself, is awarded massive no-bid contracts by the Bush misAdministration to perform various tasks traditionally performed by the federal government. Notoriously, billions. So what's this about? The pay of those threatened...