Economic Shock Assignment

For this assignment, research  the economic affects of natural disasters. You can research the economic  affects of large localized events or the more general natural disasters  in general. Some types to focus on: floods, earthquakes, tornados,  drought, sunamis, hurricanes, or wildfires. It is likely that you can  find studies that focus on one particular natural disaster as a whole or  the more general study of natural disasters as a whole.

One  problem that is often discussed by those who research economic issues  is that many times news stations and popular press type companies miss  the important issues, simply misunderstand the issues, or chose to sway  the facts to fit a certain viewpoint or bias. Our goal with these  remaining assignments will be to take the different prompts given,  evaluate their validity using Economic Journal articles and use these to  either support or refute (based upon each set of instructions) and then  explain this issue in a way that the general public would understand.  Often, it appears, that the news that is available to us uses a  particular set of information to explain an issue in a way that may or  may not be accurate.


Your goal with these  assignments is to always try to find the RELEVANT information using  Economic Journal articles and then evaluate those in relation to  published news articles or video news.