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Highly demanded products do sell out during natural disasters, and it does cause shortages. In reality, not theory.


Yes, of course, but it does not follow that those products are being optimally allocated by price like a normal economy. Normal economies adjust to produce more, natural disaster is a temporary state with different rules.

It becomes a public policy issue (we have too few and how to apportion in the short term) rather than an economic issue.




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