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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2008

Abstract

This paper examines what costs are included and which are excluded from a war budget and why it is in the best interests of the US political elite to under-cost warfare. It provides a social accounting for war that goes beyond the economic by documenting the human and social consequences of conflict. In so doing, it demonstrates the potential of social reporting for emancipation. If the US government was required to disclose the social and human costs of a war, the horror would be revealed, making it difficult to rationalize violence as a means to an end.

Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

1045-2354

Volume

19

Issue

5

Language (ISO)

English

Keywords

costs of war, social account of war

Comments

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622813/description#description

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