BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20090308T100000 RDATE:20090308T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20091101T090000 RDATE:20091101T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090306 LOCATION:Council Chamber\, Templeton Campus Center SUMMARY:The Impact of the Iraq War on the U.S. Economy DESCRIPTION:This year's Steinhardt Lecture in Economics will feature Lind a Bilmes\, Professor of Economics Kennedy School\, Harvard University. A part from its tragic human toll\, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have b een\, and will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. Author of Th e Three Trillion Dollar War (with Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz)\ , Bilmes will speak on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer\, including not only big ticket items like replacing military eq uipment (being used up at six times the peace time rate) but also the cos t of caring for thousands of wounded veterans - for the rest of their liv es. Shifting to a global focus\, she will discuss the cost in lives and e conomic damage within Iraq and the region. Professor bilmes will focus on what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had bee n invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Bilmes' research ha s changed the way we think about the war. The event will take place in T empleton Campus Center\, Council Chamber. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This year's Steinhardt Lecture in Econo
mics will feature Linda Bilmes\, Professor of Economics Kennedy School\,
Harvard University.
Apart from its tragic human toll\, the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan have been\, and will be staggeringly expensive in f
inancial terms. Author of The Three Trillion Dollar War (with Nobel Prize
winner Joseph E. Stiglitz)\, Bilmes will speak on expense items that hav
e been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer\, including not only big ticket item
s like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peace
time rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans
- for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus\, she will dis
cuss the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Pr
ofessor bilmes will focus on what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have pr
oduced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S.
economy. Bilmes' research has changed the way we think about the war.
The event will take place in Templeton Campus Center\, Council Chambe
r.