Ultimately, respect for production, wages and quality will see a shift towards durable products, made in an honest way empowering the consumer to make responsible choices, to compete not on price point but to innovate on quality and sustainability instead.
Nor does it include the cost of mental healthcare for first responders or families who may have lost loved ones, or lost wages, jobs, quality of life or economic productivity.
The Bush administration and its corporate allies give the impression that they would welcome a big surge in employment that would raise the wages and quality of life for all working Americans and their families.
Intriguingly, Felix Hüfner, an economist who heads the O.E.C.D.'s German desk, told me that "we are confident in our argument Germany's recent success is based much more on price competitiveness through low wages than quality, and that this is a pattern that can't be maintained going forward".
Among the practices addressed by the group were labour laws pertaining to hours and wages, the quality of legal representation for women, the lack of education and counseling for working women, and federal insurance and tax laws that affected women's incomes.
But with significantly lower wages come quality problems.
As well as the death toll and working conditions, other criticisms focus on the non-payment of wages, poor quality accommodation and a lack of freedom to change jobs or leave the country.
Last summer, more than 10,000 workers protested for nonpayment of wages, poor quality of food and inadequate housing.
Without dramatic improvements to the ways we support children and young people; educate and train them for good jobs; help working families get ahead; and strengthen the economy for the vast majority of Americans who have seen their wages and quality of life stagnate, America will simply not be able to compete.
They include protracted civil war and unrest, outmigration of trained workers to countries with higher wages and quality of life and a legacy of insufficient government investment in the health-care sector [ 2, 3].
