How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
by
John C. Mutter
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Natural disasters don't matter for the reasons we think they do. They generally don't kill a huge number of people. Most years more people kill themselves than are killed by Nature's tantrums. And using standard measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it is difficult to show that disasters significantly...