Sound and Fury: Rhetoric and Rebound after Katrina
Art Carden
affiliation not provided to SSRN
December 6, 2007
Abstract:
Free markets in capital and labor are essential to rapid recovery from natural disaster. Political and rhetorical responses to Hurricane Katrina included denunciation of price gougers in the market for gasoline; the arbitrariness associated with anti-price gouging legislation may create uncertainty that reduces the attractiveness of the investment climate.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 16
Keywords: Katrina, disaster, weather, rhetoric, political economy
JEL Classification: D70, K00
working papers series
Suggested Citation
Carden, Art, Sound and Fury: Rhetoric and Rebound after Katrina (December 6, 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1092313 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1092313
