Hey all, Pensacola News Journal is running an article about the tourism industry gearing up to sue BP over the spill. One of the important points to argue, apparently, is that proximity to the spill should not be a crucial factor in eligibility to sue - tourists expectations of the damage hurt tourism across gulf, regardless of actual conditions. But with tourism down everywhere, they can't just compare with years past. Thus:
"To that end, the firms plan to hire university experts for economic modeling — that is, building sophisticated computer programs that will use information about businesses and their location to determine how the spill affected their bottom lines." The lawyers are looking to find people to do the modeling... seemed like a good prospect for an ambitious modeler or three. Eric P.S. Full article: <http://www.pnj.com/article/20100905/NEWS01/9050314/1006/RSS01>
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