The Real Price of War : : How You Pay for the War on Terror / / Joshua S. Goldstein.

Are Americans in denial about the costs of the War on Terror? In The Real Price of War, Joshua S. Goldstein argues that we need to face up to what the war costs the average American-both in taxes and in changes to our way of life. Goldstein contends that in order to protect the United States from fu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I Government Spending
  • 1 What Does War Cost?
  • 2 Taxes
  • 3 Budget Cuts
  • 4 Debt
  • Part II Broader Economic Effects
  • 5 Inflation
  • 6 Business under Stress
  • 7 Profit and Loss in Wartime
  • Part III Future Costs and How We Divide Them
  • 8 The Price of Failure
  • 9 A War without Sacrifice?
  • 10 Sharing the Burden
  • 11 Pay to Win
  • Afterword for the Paperback Edition
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • About the Author