Unbearable Cost

1. About War

   1. The Cheney Doctrine

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 65-71

   2. The Unbearable Costs of Empire

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 72-75

   3. The Paramilitary Mind

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 76-78

   4. What Economic Price This War?

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 79-80

   5. Still Wrong: Why Liberals Should Keep Opposing the War

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 81-83

   6. Don’t Blame Rumsfeld, Blame Bush

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 84-86

   7. The Iraqi Quagmire

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 87-89

   8. War and Economy Don’t Wear Well

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 90-92

   9. How You Will Pay for the War

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 93-95

   10. The Economics of the Oil War

       • James K. Galbraith

       Pages 96-98

   11. Boom Times for War Inc.

       • James K. Galbraith

       Pages 99-101

   12. The Gambler’s Fallacy

       • James K. Galbraith

       Pages 102-105

   13. Withdrawal Symptoms

       • James K. Galbraith

       Pages 106-109

2. About Greenspan

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Back to the Cross of Gold

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 113-115

   3. Greenspan’s Error

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 116-117

   4. The Free Ride of Mr Greenspan

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 118-120

   5. There’s Some Good News That’s Bad News

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 121-123

   6. Greenspan’s Whim

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 124-125

   7. Greenspan’s Glasnost

      • James K. Galbraith

      Pages 126-128

This work contains James K. Galbraith's most influential recent writings on current affairs along with new commentary, and explores both the descent to disaster in Iraq and the ongoing transformation of the American economy under the steerage of Alan Greenspan.

• capitalism
• demography
• economics
• economy
• new economy
• social security
• statistics
• transformation

'Galbraith for the Twenty-first century! Prescient, lucid, elegant. Where others are lost groping in the shadows, James K. Galbraith sees the big picture. His writing is like a torch that guides us through the cave of the present into the light.' - Sidney Blumenthal, formerly Senior Advisor to President Clinton and author of The Clinton Wars

'The reason Jamie Galbraith is such an important writer is because he asks the right questions. You would be amazed at the number of people who pass for pundits or even sages who can't hit the backboard with a question, much less hit the net. That Galbraith knows the answers too strikes me less

impressive. He is after all, an economist and a political scientist and an

academic; he's supposed to know these things. He even did time in the

bowels of congress and so knows how it actually works. Galbraith's writing

is crisp, funny, and incisive. Krugman, move over, Galbraith is here.' -

Molly Ivins is a syndicated columnist, co-author of Bushwhacked: Life in

George Bush's America, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences.

JAMES K. GALBRAITH holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, USA, and a Professorship in the Department of Government. He is Senior Scholar with the Levy Economics Institute and Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security, a global network of professional economists. He served as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s.

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