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Tuesday 2 December 2008 13:30 - 14:30The True Cost of the War in Iraq: Implications for the Global Economy
Tuesday 26 February 2008 13:30 to 14:30
Location
Chatham House, London
Participants
Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia Business School; Chief Economist and Senior-Vice President, World Bank 1997-2000; and Nobel Prizewinner in Economics 2001
Chair: Dr John Llewellyn, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Lehman Brothers and Council Member, Chatham House
Type: Members event
Before the Iraq war, the Bush administration estimated its cost to the US at $50 billion, but the speaker will argue that the total costs will come in at more than sixty times that figure. He will briefly examine how the true costs have been hidden and who has suffered as a result, in the US, in Iraq and in the world more generally. He will conclude with a discussion of the role of the war and the economy in the pre-election debate in the US.
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