The true cost of the war in Iraq must also include estimates of US expenditures after the war to defray the costs imposed upon non-combatant Iraqis.

States that the homo economicus abstraction remains dominant in economics, despite a range of criticisms of its use over the years. Many institutionalists, post‐Keynesians, neo‐Austrians and social economists have insisted that economic analysis must be conducted in an explicit historical...