The Cost of Doing Nothing
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
'The US Secretary of State, currently John Kerry today (2013-08-30) in a newscast on the possibility of intervening in Syria due to chemical weapons used there, claimed that there is a high and immediate cost of the US doing nothing in response to that use. Amartya Sen, the Nobel prize-winning Harvard economist who wrote a book called The Cost of Inaction, is quoted in an Economist article A Dollar now or a Hundred Dollars Later as saying: “There is indeed an “ opportunity cost of doing nothing
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