Accounting: depreciation and destruction to the infrastructure: 3.2 b$
Economic: Foregone income and earnings from destroyed capital: 3.5b$
Political economy: Is the present social formation capable of reproducing itself in time and space within the confines of the same social relations (sectarianism and warlordism) now more than before? The answer is yes, because geopolitical rents may exceed the sum total of actual and foregone losses (6.7b$) as a result of different portly regional and international players, especially the Gulf and the USA’s, efforts to buy support amongst the different factions of the Lebanese mosaic. so from a qualatative point of view, the war supports fundemnetalism and sectarianism and it does not provide the space nor the grounds for new universal values to grow.
