Welcome to Professor Linda Bilmes' website. This
page contains links to
recent press coverage.
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John Hanrahan for Nieman Watchdog. "Wars May End But Spending on Them Doesn’t." November 13, 2009.
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| Katharine Herrup for Newsweek. "Not a Walk in the Park." November 10, 2009. |
| Ottawa, Paris and Sydney for Economist. "Public-Service Careers: A Tough Search for Talent." October 30, 2009. |
| Bob Herbert for New York Times. "Reliving the Past." September 5, 2009. |
| Michael Levenson for Boston Globe. "Yoon Pushes for ZipCar Upgrade to City Fleet." June 3, 2009. |
| Laura Crimaldi for Boston Herald. "Boston's Gas Lamps Spark High Costs." May 10, 2009. |
| Laura Crimaldi for Boston Herald. "Harvard School Looks at Books and Says...Hey Tommy, You Can Fix This Mess." May 10, 2009. |
| Carlos Lozada for The Washington Post. "The Government's People Power Problem." April 5, 2009. |
| Brenda Pantoine for Annals of Neurology. "ANA Symposium Examines Costs, Lessons from Iraq Conflict." January 27, 2009. |
| Jessica Jannicelli for Neurology Reviews.com. " Neurologic Injuries and Neuropsychiatric Disorders Likely to Increase Long-Term Medical Costs for Veterans
." December 2008. |
| Colleen Walsh in Harvard Gazette. "HKS Students Will Help Out City of Boston." December 11, 2008. |
| Thomas Collins in Neurology Today. "The Economics of War — Vets with Mild Brain
Injuries Predicted to Incur Huge Government
Costs for Care." November 5, 2008. |
Scot Paltrow Condé Nast Portfolio.com (UK). "The Pentagon's $1 Trillion Problem." May, 2008. |
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Jonathan Steele in Guardian Unlimited (UK). "Counting the Cost." May 25, 2008. |
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Sam Leith in Telegraph (UK). "Joseph Stiglitz: The Three Trillion Dollar War." March 8, 2008. |
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Charles Taylor in Bloomberg.com. "Nobelist Stiglitz Tallies Iraq War's Outrageous Cost: Review." March 4, 2008. |
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Bob Herbert in The New York Times. "The $2 Trillion Nightmare." March 4, 2008 (LexisNexis login required). |
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Aida Edemariam in The Guardian. "The True Cost of War." February 28, 2008. |
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Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes in The Times (London): "The Three Trillion Dollar War:
The Cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts Gave Grown to Staggering Proportions." February 23, 2008. |
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John Tepper Marlin in The Huffington Post: "Why Estimates of the Cost of the War
in Iraq Have Been Rising." November 25, 2007. |
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Michael Isikoff and Jamie Reno in Newsweek. "How Do You Fund a War, But Not the Casualties?" October 29, 2007. |
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Stella M. Hopkins in The Charlotte Observer: "Veterans with Severe Ailments
Face Long Waits for Care." October 21, 2007. |
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Rick Maze in Navy
Times. "Nicholson Backs New Benefits
Claims System." July 26, 2007. |
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Richard Paddock in
Los Angeles Times. "Antiwar Speakers
on Campus are Lecturers, Not Students, This
Time." July 5, 2007. |
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Newshour with Jim Lehrer:
"Long-term Costs of War." May 22, 2007. |
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Joshua Kors in The
Nation. “How Specialist Town Lost His
Benefits.” April 9, 2007. |
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Rick Maze in Marine
Corps Times. "VA Alienating
Generation, Disabled Vets Warn." March
21, 2007. |
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Matt Crenson in
Boston Globe. “Costliness of the War is
Subject to Debate.” March 17, 2007. |
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Matt Crenson for Associated Press. “Cost for Iraq War Reaches
$500 Billion.” March 16, 2007. |
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Hope Yen in the Boston
Globe. “Backlogs in Disability Claims Seen
Stretching Veterans Affairs to Limit.” March
14, 2007. |
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John Holusha in the New
York Times. “Veterans’ Programs Overwhelmed,
Panel is Told.” March 13, 2007. |
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Hope Yen in USA Today. “Probe: VA Not Doing Enough for Iraq Vets.”
March 13, 2007. |
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Charles Sennott in the
Boston Globe. “Straining to Keep a Promise.”
March 11, 2007. |
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Nick Timiraos in The
Wall Street Journal. “Wounded Warriors at
Walter Reed.”March 10, 2007. |
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Dan Ephron and Sarah
Childress in Newsweek. “Forgotten Heroes.”
March 5, 2007. |
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Lynette Clemetson in
the New York Times. “Focus is on Veterans’
Chief as Inquiries on Care Begin.” March 5,
2007. |
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Bill Glauber in
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “The Iraq War
has Cost Each of Us $1,333 – So Far.”
February 6, 2007. |
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Cory Reiss in
Hendersonville News. “Vets May Slip in
Disability Battle.” February 11, 2007. |
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Reuters in The Boston
Globe. “Care for U.S. Veterans Could Cost
$662 Billion – Study.” February 2, 2007. |
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Richard Wolf in USA
Today. “Researchers Weigh War’s Other
Costs.” January 30, 2007. |
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Scott Jaschik in Inside
Higher Ed. “Shooting the Messenger.” January
30, 2007. |
| Denise Grady in
New York Times. "Agency Says Higher Casualty
Total Was Posted in Error." January 30, 2007. |
| Stephen Koff in
Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Injury count in
Iraq disputed." January 28, 2007. |
| David Leonhardt in
New York Times, Business Day. "What $1.2
Trillion Can Buy." January 17, 2007. |
| David Leonhardt in
International Herald Tribune. "Cost of Iraq
war ($1.2 trillion) Changes Economic
Perspectives." January 16, 2007. |
| Ron Scherer in Christian Science Monitor. "How US is
deferring war costs." January 16, 2007. |
| Editorial in Boston Globe. "Congressional Casualties."
January 16, 2007 |
| Rob Waters in Bloomberg. "More injured Soldiers
Survive Than Before." January 15, 2007. |
| Nicholas D.
Kristof in New York Times. "An Escalation of
American Blood." January 9, 2007. |
| Christian B. Flow
in The Harvard Crimson. "Veteran Care Could
Cost $700 Billion." January 8, 2007. |
| O'Ryan Johnson in
Boston Herald. "Study: Number of Wounded
Veterans Could Cripple VA." |
| United Press
International. "Veteran Health Care Could
Exceed $700B." January 6, 2007. |
| John Cochran in CQ
Weekly. "The Fog of War Costs" January 1,
2007. |
| Robert Scheer in
San Francisco Chronicle. "The Real Menace."
December 27, 2006. |
| Reports from
Truthdiggers.com. "Truthdiggers of the
Week: Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes."
December 23, 2006. |
| Lou Dobbs on CNN.
"Dobbs: Our Leaders are Ducking Reality on
Iraq." December 6, 2006. |
| Dave Montgomery
and Kevin G. Hall in Star-Telegram
Washington Bureau; McClatchy Newspapers. "$500 billion and counting." December 6, 2006. |
| CNN "In the Money"
on November 30, 2006. |
| ABC World News
Tonight on the cost of Iraq war on November
19, 2006. |
| Nicholas D.
Kristof in New York Times. "Iraq and Your
Wallet." October 24, 2006. |
| Robyn Blumner in
St. Petersburg newspaper: "Cost of
Bush's War: Just Keep Adding Zeros."
October 1, 2006. |
| Chris Farrell, Business Week. "September 11's
Economic Legacy." September 10, 2006. |
| Jon E. Hilsenrath and Liam Pleven in Wall Street
Journal. "Business as Usual; Economic
Fears After 9/11 Proved Mostly
Unfounded." September 9, 2006. |
| Robert J. Samuelson in Newsweek. "Terror's Economics:
New Political Divisions May Alter Global Ffinancial
Alliances." August 21-28,
2006. |
| Harvard Magazine article on Iraq War: "The 2-Trillion
Dollar War." May-June
issue, 2006. |
| Boston Globe article on Somerville: "The Model
City." May 14,
2006 |
| Economist article
on Iraq War: "Blood and
Treasure." April 8,
2006. |
| Harvard Gazette article on Somerville. "KSG Students
Help a City Balance Books." April 6, 2006. |
| Bob Hebert article
on Iraq War: "George Bush's
Trillion Dollar War." NY Times March
23, 2006. |
| Martin Wolf
article on Iraq War: "Failure to
Calculate the Cost of War." Financial
Times January 10, 2006. |
| Sally B. Donnelly in Time. "Iraq:
Counting the Costs." January
16, 2006. |
| Andrew Walker for BBC.
"US Economist Questions Iraq
Costs." January 9, 2006. |
| Tom Regan in Christian Science Monitor. "Report: Iraq War Costs Could Top $2
Trillion. New Study Ttakes into Account
Long-Term Costs of Healthcare for Wounded
Soldiers." January 10, 2006. |
| Harvard Gazette article on Hull. "KSG Students Help
Town Manage Future Floods." June 2, 2005. |
| Commonwealth
Magazine article on Somerville:
"Harvard Students Help Somerville
Revamp its Budgeting Process." Winter 2005. |
