The cost and damage is significant.

The High Cost of Feeling Low

The Global Cost of Turkey s Crisis

We do no such thing, because we recognize that the costs of high speed cars must be weighed against the benefits of a mobile society.

The benefits of driving moderately fast vastly outweigh the costs.

Consider the enormous opportunity cost of huge military budgets.

It could even pay for a substantial share of the cost for a war like that in Iraq!

But that decision, and its moral costs, remains in the hands of the Palestinians alone.

But they too easily forget the costs of high inflation, and how difficult it is to squeeze it out of the system.

Our sense of entitlement has run far ahead of our ability to pay for it.

Costs incurred in relation to this exercise are to be borne by the entity whose accreditation has been suspended or withdrawn.

In environmental economics, there is a basic principle, called the polluter pays principle. It is a matter of both equity and efficiency.

To change the Israeli Palestinian dynamic, external actors now need to influence the political calculus inside Israel and Palestine by lowering the political cost of peace and raising the cost of occupation . Any meaningful Arab Israeli peace depends on Israel s return of Palestinian territories, with certain conditions, but no Israeli government will be willing or even able to do so unless the political calculus inside Israel changes.

Of course, the brunt of the costs of injury and death is borne by soldiers and their families.

The benefits of fossil fuels must be weighed against the costs of global warming.

Ten years ago, the Brookings Institution published a study that estimated the total costs of nuclear weapons in the United States alone to be over 5.8 trillion, including future cleanup costs.

The political costs for the ECB of making this type of mistake could be exorbitant.

But we must not forget that the cost of insecurity is unacceptable.

Only swift and sustained recovery can stem the rise in the human cost of economic stagnation.

(e) Costs required for legal or expert assistance, medicine and medical services, and psychological and social services.

(e) Costs required for legal or expert assistance, medicine and medical services, and psychological and social services.

In these circumstances, the risk entailed by doing nothing far outweighs the costs of referring Iran to the Security Council.

The international community can urge the Palestinians toward a decision. But that decision, and its moral costs, remains in the hands of the Palestinians alone.

Nonetheless, it is argued, whatever the real cost of the damage, developed countries currently cannot afford to provide that kind of money.

In an environment of ultra low interest rates, the economic cost of being late is low.

But such systems are burdened by large administration and compliance costs.

(There are also all the separate costs of bad health, which are much harder to count or capture.)

Tell your family and friends about your resolution, thus both gaining support and increasing the personal cost of failure

The eventual costs of any of these actions are severe.

While consolidation may imply some short term costs, especially in a recession, the long term costs of delay are large.

It is easy to be swayed by arguments about how costly such market fragmentation would be.

The benefits of higher recycling rates would surely offset the associated administrative costs.

Even in larger countries, the costs and benefits of membership in a currency union are under renewed consideration.

But neither citizens nor policymakers appear willing to bear its social and political costs.

Deficits are convenient for politicians as they hide and delay the true tax cost of spending.

In the public s eyes, the focus on such institutions appears justified by the huge costs of financial rescue.

As a result, the Czech and Polish governments were unable to answer fundamental questions about the costs and benefits of the deployment for Polish and Czech national security.

Yet the overall benefits of a successful Doha Round would likely be hundreds of times greater than these costs.

The cost of such events in terms of destroyed property and economic disruption has been rising steadily.

Fiscal expansion is always risky, as it adds to debt and raises dangers later. But, given where we are, the benefits exceed the costs in countries with sustainable debt.

And our estimate does not include any of the costs implied by the enormous loss of life and property in Iraq itself.

For fear of empowering the protectionist barbarians, trade economists are prone to exaggerate the benefits of trade and downplay its distributional and other costs.

The implication of this was clear.

Critics who worry about the cost of the energy tax have not thought about tax substitutions.

The better question is how can we afford not to?