This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO … the war on the overall performance of the economy. Even taking a conservative approach and assuming all US troops return …

During World War II Americans were called upon repeatedly to salvage raw materials for the war effort, often during …

fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …

the implications of the war costs themselves. Besides the unanticipated length and breadth of the military conflicts … motivations associated with war cost forecasts by comparing them with other types of aggregate forecasts, which are prone to … similar types of errors. The history of war cost forecasts suggests that increasing their frequency and transparency may …

security analysts. Our analysis also indicates that war and forcible regime change will yield large improvements in the …We consider three questions related to the choice between war in Iraq and a continuation of the pre-war containment … war more or less costly for the United States than containment? Second, compared to war and forcible regime change, would …

The French Opposition to the war in Iraq in early 2003, prompted calls for a boycott of French wine in the US. We …

enmeshed in the world economy, or net oil importers, are most likely to experience adverse effects from war …We analyze financial market data in order to produce an ex-ante assessment of the economic consequences of war with …'s price provides a plausible estimate of the probability of war. The spot oil price has moved closely with the Saddam Security …