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No business for amateur philanthropists: Part 2, fraud
[Continued from yesterday”s Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post used a thorough and heartbreaking article in New York Times (October 11, 2012) to introduce Wyclef Jean’s now-defunct...
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No business for amateur philanthropists: Part 3, abuse
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Now, after two days of demolishing the reputation of Wyclef Jean’s charity, Yele, using evidence presented in an...
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Holdouts, free riders, and property rights: Part 4, I don’t like to sound...
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] The threat of storm surge overrunning beach houses, described in the preceding parts of this post based on...
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Who built their houses on the sand: Part 2, public interest
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By:David A. Smith As we saw in yesterday’s post, using a crisis-presuming Boston Globe (December 15, 2013) article, if a beach needs to be built up to protect...
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This land is whose land? Part 1, No permanent houses
By:David A. Smith Though a catastrophe can be a chance to start fresh, the destruction of physical habitat does not wipe out the legal habitat, nor the economic or power structures, and all these...
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