LEADER 03805nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910457749303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-025257-X 010 $a1-283-29706-X 010 $a9786613297068 010 $a0-19-987822-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050167 035 $a(EBL)784744 035 $a(OCoLC)756484810 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541844 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12143252 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541844 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10514644 035 $a(PQKB)10834507 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001019338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC784744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL784744 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10501006 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL329706 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050167 100 $a20110316d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTerror, security, and money$b[electronic resource] $ebalancing the risks, benefits, and costs of homeland security /$fJohn Mueller and Mark G. Stewart 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (268 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-979576-2 311 $a0-19-979575-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAssessing risk -- Terrorism as a hazard to human life -- The full costs of terrorism -- Evaluating homeland security spending -- Protecting the homeland : some parameters -- Homeland protection : infrastructure -- Protecting the airlines -- assessing policing, mitigation, resilience -- Conclusions and political realities. 330 $aIn seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses--which have risen by more than a trillion dollars, not including war costs--the common query has been, "Are we safer?" This, however, is the wrong question. Of course we are "safer"--the posting of a single security guard at one building's entrance enhances safety. The correct question is, "Are any gains in security worth the funds expended?"In this engaging, readable book, John Mueller and Mark Stewart apply risk and cost-benefit evaluation techniques to answer this very question. This analytical approach has been used throughout the world for decades by regulators, academics, and businesses--but, as a recent National Academy of Science study suggests, it has never been capably applied by the people administering homeland security funds. Given the limited risk terrorism presents, expenses meant to lower it have for the most part simply not been worth it. For example, to be considered cost-effective, increased American homeland security expenditures would have had each year to have foiled up to 1,667 attacks roughly like the one intended on Times Square in 2010--more than four a day. Cataloging the mistakes that the US has made--and continues to make--in managing homeland security programs, Terror, Security, and Money has the potential to redirect our efforts toward a more productive and far more cost-effective course. 606 $aTerrorism$zUnited States$xPrevention$xCost effectiveness 606 $aTerrorism$xCosts 606 $aNational security$zUnited States$xCosts 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTerrorism$xPrevention$xCost effectiveness. 615 0$aTerrorism$xCosts. 615 0$aNational security$xCosts. 676 $a363.325/170973 700 $aMueller$b John E$0681031 701 $aStewart$b Mark G.$f1961-$0862327 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457749303321 996 $aTerror, security, and money$91924887 997 $aUNINA