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Subsidizing sorrow

Clement, Douglas - In: Fedgazette (2001) Sep, pp. 1-1

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The failure of flood control

Clement, Douglas - In: Fedgazette (2001) Sep, pp. 2-3

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Dam it all: Dams and levees are the usual answer to flooding, but they're not always the right answer. So why do we keep building them?

Clement, Douglas - In: Fedgazette (2001) Sep, pp. 4-5

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Who needs downtowns, anyway?

Davies, Phil - In: Fedgazette (2006) Sep, pp. 8-8

Were historic business districts worth saving? City leaders thought so.

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To save a city

Davies, Phil - In: Fedgazette (2006) Sep, pp. 7-10

How far should government power extend into private markets in the wake of a disaster?

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Interagency guidance on issues related to lapse in federal floor insurance authority

In: Federal Reserve Bulletin (2003) Feb, pp. 77-78

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What is seen and unseen on the Gulf coast

Raskin, Max; Kjar, Scott A.; Rahm, Robert - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) July, pp. 490-500

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the rebuilding of the Gulf coast post-Hurricane Katrina. Design/methodology/approach – The paper posits that though Frédéric Bastiat passed away in 1850, the beauty of his sound economic reasoning is that it does not change over time and...

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Replacing incomplete markets with a complete mess: Katrina and the NFIP

Young, Andrew T. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) July, pp. 561-568

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the stated goals of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and then demonstrate that in practice those goals have not been achieved, and at significant cost to US taxpayers. Design/methodology/approach – The objectives are achieved by...

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After the flood: flood insurance and wetlands restoration are two policies that hold both promise and problems for flood control. Will they be able to handle the next disaster?

Clement, Douglas - In: Fedgazette (2001) Nov, pp. 8-11

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High and dry

Davies, Phil - In: Fedgazette (2006) Sep, pp. 1-6

Almost a decade after the Flood of 1997, the Grand Forks metro area has made quite a comeback

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