Indeed, they go much further than capitalstock, natural resources, education, or the other usual suspects of textbook economics, towards explaining why a worker's productivity rises so astonishingly when he merely crosses the political boundary between Mexico and the United States.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis attempts to translate the damages from natural disasters like hurricanes into two effects: the destruction of property and the capitalstock buildings and equipment and the disruption of the flow of income that this stock of capital produces.