Linda Bilmes's research while affiliated with Harvard University and other places
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Publications (8)
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can't spend $3 trillion --yes, $3 trillion --on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home. The end result of all this wishful thinking? As we a...
This paper analyzes the long-term needs of veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and the budgetary and structural consequences of these needs. The paper uses data from government sources, such as the Veterans Benefit Administration Annual Report. The main conclusions of the analysis are that: (a) the Veterans Health Administra...
This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and accounting/ budgetary frameworks. As of December 30, 2005, total spending for combat and support operations in Iraq is $251bn, and the CBO's estimates put the projected total direct costs at around $500bn. These figures, however, great...
Three years ago, as America was preparing to go to war in Iraq, there were few discussions of the likely costs. When Larry Lindsey, President Bush’s economic adviser, suggested that they might reach $200 billion, there was a quick response from the White House: that number was a gross overestimation. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz claimed...
Many aspects of the Iraq venture have turned out differently from what was purported before the war: there were no weapons of mass destruction, no clear link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, no imminent danger that would warrant a pre-emptive war. Whether Americans were greeted as liberators or not, there is evidence that that they are now viewed as occu...
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... Al Jazeera mentioned in 2011 until 2015, there are 14 countries which involved in Syrian War that separated into two alliances, seven countries support backed up Syria's government and seven countries fight against Syria's government. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war (Bilmes and Stiglitz, 2008). War has substantial impact in many things. ...
... 18 The most comprehensive estimate of the long-term budgetary costs of the wars-both of direct and indirect spending and other economic effects-is The Three Trillion Dollar War by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes. 19 The Stiglitz-Bilmes estimate was conservative in many respects. Due to their long duration, the costs of the post-9/11 wars have exceeded all these estimates. ...
... Many papers, similar to Ali's (2011) on the economic costs of the armed conflcit have been generated in the last two decades (Abadie & Gardeazabal, 2003;Bilmes & Stiglitz, 2006;Bozzoli et al., 2008;Bozzoli et al., 2010;de Groot, 2010;Fitzgerald, 1987;Grobar & Gnanaselvam, 1993;Lopez & Wodon, 2005;Pradhan, 2001;Roux, 1996). All these works show enormous costs of social conflicts and a negative impact on the level of economic activity; precisely, due to those resources for war or the destruction of physical and human capital and the loss of productivity in the country. ...
... Outcome from TBI can range from full recovery to long-term disability, and can be influenced by many factors (e.g., injury severity; access to care; and biological and psychological factors [2][3][4]). In the United States, it has been estimated that the financial cost of providing medical and rehabilitation services to SMVs with a history of TBI is four times greater than those SMVs without a TBI diagnosis [5][6][7]. As such, early identification and treatment of those individuals 'at risk' for poor long-term outcome following TBI has obvious benefits for increasing warfighter readiness and reducing the economic impact of healthcare provision. ...
... First, compared to cost-accounting approach favoured by Arunatilake et. al. (2001), Bilmes and Stiglitz (2006), Skaperdas et. al. (2009) and several others, synthetic control method does not necessitate multiple calculations of a broad variety conflict costs. ...
Reference: Estimating the Effects of Syrian Civil War
... Most research focuses on combatants showing that in low resource countries, there is poor availability of therapeutic health care [18,21,22]. Even in high resource countries like the United States, veterans from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seeking health care are so abundant that they have overwhelmed the Veterans Health System with their serious health care needs, resulting in inadequate overall care [23,24]. Most healthfocused studies on war violence against civilians focus on framing, diagnosing, and describing the mental and psychosocial health of their study populations [10,12,[25][26][27]. ...
