A short while ago, I had threatened to send a friend a bunch of interesting articles on the economics of Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0 The articles I spoke of took an interesting look at the disaster, focusing on relief and other things a bit closer to home for most
\nfolks, like gas.<\/p>\n
Much like any promised updates to update this space lately, I forgot to do so. Or didn’t get to it. Or pushed it into the black hole that occasionally forms near the middle of my priority list. Let’s see if I can hit two birds with one stone for once.<\/p>\n
Steven E. Landsburg, an author I’ve mentioned before<\/a>, asks a couple of intriguing questions in his Everyday Economics<\/a> gig. How much should we help<\/a> the victims of Katrina’s wrath and how would these folks really like to spend<\/a> all that relief money heading their way?<\/p>\n On the gas front, Austan Goolsbee points out just how price insensitive<\/a> we are when we visit the gas pump and that we need not worry too much about price gouging<\/a> right now, at least.<\/p>\n It’s no coincidence that all of these articles come from the Slate<\/a>, one of my long lived RSS feeds. Sometimes I have to refer my local paper<\/a> (sorry, no direct link) for economic tidbits like fuel efficient cars do not lead decreased gas use but the Slate isn’t a bad source for this type of stuff at all. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A short while ago, I had threatened to send a friend a bunch of interesting articles on the economics of Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0 The articles I spoke of took an interesting look at the disaster, focusing on relief and other things a bit closer to home for most folks, like gas. Much like any promised updates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}