Another Look at Hurricane Katrina…

Peter Boettke is the director of a five-year research project at Mercatus and GMU on “crisis and response in the wake of hurricane Katrina” (see here). This study of post-disaster recovery will examine how different social, legal, political, and economic institutions engender different types of response, and how they may have affected different communities before, during, and after the hurricane. One of the first to notice the capacity of some societies to recover was John Stuart-Mill in his Principles. He noted that after a disaster, some countries often rapidly recovered. In such cases, population numbers and people’s human capital were essential (book I, chapter 5).

While economists try to examine responses to hurricane-related disasters, other scientists (literally) travel in the eyes of hurricanes to understand better how they form and how we can predict their path. As I was browsing for Katrina-related material on the Internet, I came across pictures of its eye taken from a plane. NOAA (which is part of the US Department of Commerce) sent a plane in the eye of Katrina. The pictures are very impressive...

Comments

[libert--rien]

Bonjour ,

Avec Katrina , le Monde entier a pu constater que:

1)Les Etats-Unis étaient toujours un Etat ségrégationniste et raciste et ce 400 après l'""arrivée"" des Noirs.
Bien sûr les Austrians Economists vont se ruer sur le cas de la France et des émeutes de 2005.
Comparaison absurde parce que:
A)Les USA DOIVENT REPARATION pour leur crime esclavagiste , ce qui n'est pas notre cas.
B)Ces personnes africaines sont chez nous depuis moins de 20 ans pour la plupart , comparé aux 400 ans que je mentionnais.

2)Les Etats-Unis ont montré une face d'Etat du Tiers Monde.

3)Les Etats-Unis ne sont même plus un Etat d'ailleurs.Voir la Police participer aux pillages des magasins est une véritable honte.
Enfin... ce dernier point doit faire plutôt plaisir aux Austrians Economists …

[cycling shorts]

This theme of so skinny it's sick also appears in the Alejandro video, during one of the scenes when GaGa is wearing only a skimpy white bra and underwear and black high heels.

[Sharon Strock]

It's kind of sad that something that beautiful and surreal is the cause of that much devastation on New Orleans. Let's just hope that the country will be much more prepared when a force like this is unleashed on the world again.