Here are some articles covering some of this issues we have been discussing in class over the last few days:

First, here is David Laband's article on the economics of Hurricane Hugo from the Wall Street Journal back in 1989. (This article is referenced in our text.) How does his analysis apply to what we saw in Louisiana and Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina?

Second, here is my article, "The Right to Set Your Own Price," written in 2005, covering an ugly episode in Alabama during Katrina.

Consider this article in terms of the "Good Economist, Bad Economist" lecture. This one, too.

Here's Walter Block's entry on rent control to the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.