Do natural disasters redistribute wealth?

NYC Crime Rate Drops After Storm
thedailybeast.com

HURRICANE SANDY

Hur­ri­cane Sandy may have dev­as­tat­ed areas of New York City, but there was one sil­ver lin­ing in the oth­er­wise mas­sive­ly destruc­tive storm cloud: the city’s over­all crime rate dropped 27 per­cent com­pared with the sam…

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