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Working Papers by Virgil Storr

Working Papers by Virgil Storr

The Impartial Spectator and the Moral Teachings of Markets

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Virgil Storr | May 07, 2013
Market skeptics have persuasively argued that the market is a social arena that is not simply amoral but that has negative moral consequences. Market apologists have offered two basic responses to this kind of charge: that the market is amoral and that it transforms private vice into public virtue. Rather than celebrating selfishness and greed, I argue that the market tends to punish both vices.

Can Decentralized Bottom-Up Post-Disaster Recovery Be Effective?

Virgil Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch | Apr 05, 2010
Using data from interviews with affected residents and community leaders in New Orleans after Katrina, this article explores the effectiveness of private disaster recovery efforts and whether or not…

The Social Construction of the Market

Virgil Storr | Nov 2009
Inspired by Berger and Luckmann’s work The Social Construction of Reality, this paper describes the social construction of the market, specifically focusing on the Austrian understanding of the…

There’s No Place Like New Orleans: Sense of Place and Community Recovery in the Ninth Ward After Hurricane Katrina

Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Oct 2008
This paper investigates the “sense of place” that residents in Ninth Ward New Orleans neighborhoods identify in their narratives about their pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina…

The Political Economy of Post-Katrina Recovery: Public Choice Style Critiques from the Ninth Ward, New Orleans

Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Aug 2008
This paper provides an account of the political economy critique residents and other stakeholders in New Orleans' Ninth Ward communities hold of the post-Katrina policy environment.

The Political Economy of Post-Katrina Recovery: Public-Choice Style Critiques from the Ninth Ward, New Orleans

Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Aug 2008
This paper provides an account of the political economy critique that residents and other stakeholders in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward communities hold of the post-Katrina policy…

The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Post-Disaster Recovery

Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Jul 2008
This paper examines the role of the social entrepreneur in post-Katrina recovery and presents implications for…

Community Resilience in New Orleans East

Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Aug 2007
Following the devastation of the 2005 hurricane season, it was unclear whether many of the affected communities would rebound. But within weeks of the storm, the neighborhood surrounding the Mary…

Club Goods and Post-Disaster Community Return

Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Aug 2007
This paper examines how the church provision of club goods can foster social cooperation and community redevelopment in the wake of a disaster.

The Market as a Social Space

Virgil Storr | May 2007
Prominent economic sociologist Richard Swedberg has argued that economists have failed to develop a theory of the market that recognizes it as a “social phenomenon in its own right.” In this working…

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Austrian Economics, Hurricane Katrina - Gulf Coast Recovery, Social Change

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Five Years After Katrina

Virgil Storr | December 28, 2011

The Role of Entrepreneurship after a Natural Disaster

Virgil Storr | April 29, 2011
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Understanding the Culture of Markets

Virgil Storr | Oct 2012
How does culture impact economic life? Is culture like a ball and chain that actors must lug around as they pursue their material interests? Or, is culture like a tool-kit from which entrepreneurs can draw resources to aid them in their efforts? Or, is being immersed in a culture like wearing a pair of blinders? Or, is culture like wearing a pair of glasses with tinted lenses?
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