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The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Post-Disaster RecoveryWorking PapersEmily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr July 11, 2008 This paper examines the role of the social entrepreneur in post-Katrina recovery and present implications for policy. |
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Mercatus on Policy - Hosting a DisasterMercatus On PolicyEmily Chamlee-Wright, Daniel Rothschild July 1, 2008 Professor Emily Chamlee-Wright and Associate Director Daniel Rothschild examine policies that can prepare cities to host an evacuee population. |
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Mercatus on Policy - Disastrous UncertaintyMercatus On PolicyEmily Chamlee-Wright, Daniel Rothschild January 24, 2008 Policy mistakes can have serious effects on post-disaster rebuilding efforts as evidenced by recovery after the 2005 hurricanes. Policy makers must understand what government assistance can and cannot do, why individuals and communities with a stake in the outcomes are best-situated to lead their own recoveries, and how to craft policy responses in a way that minimizes interference with rebuilding efforts - what we call "signal noise." |
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The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of KatrinaWorking PapersPeter Boettke, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Peter Gordon, Sanford Ikeda, Peter Leeson, Russell Sobel September 11, 2007 This paper examines the resiliency of community recovery following natural disaster. We argue that a resilient recovery requires robust economic/financial institutions, political/legal institutions, and social/cultural institutions. We find that where post-disaster resiliency has been observed, private-sector responses contributing to the health of these institutional arenas are largely responsible. Where post-disaster fragility and slowness has been observed, public-sector responses contributing to the frailty of these institutional arenas are largely the cause. |
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Community Resilience in New Orleans East: Deploying the Cultural Toolkit within a Vietnamese-American CommunityWorking PapersEmily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr August 27, 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 Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church was showing clear signs of recovery, setting a pace that would continue until almost all the residents and businesses had returned by the summer of 2007. This paper addresses the question of how this post-disaster success was won. |
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Church Provision for Club Goods and Community Redevelopment in New Orleans EastWorking PapersEmily Chamlee-Wright August 17, 2007 This working paper examines how the church provision of club goods, or quasipublic goods, can foster community rebound in the wake of disaster. |
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Written Testimony on Rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina Submitted to the Committee on Oversight and Government ReformCongressional TestimoniesEmily Chamlee-Wright, Daniel Rothschild, Mario Villarreal June 26, 2007 This written testimony was delivered to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's Subcommittee on Domestic Policy as part of the June 26, 2007 hearing on labor law enforcement and regulation in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. |
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The Long Road BackWorking PapersEmily Chamlee-Wright March 23, 2007 This working paper, part of the research program, Crisis and Response in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, looks at the factors that are inhibiting the the recovery process along the gulf of Mexico. |
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Disastrous UncertaintyMercatus Policy Series, Policy CommentsEmily Chamlee-Wright, Daniel Rothschild January 11, 2007 Disastrous Uncertainty: How Government Disaster Policy Undermines Community Rebound, by Emily Chamlee-Wright and Daniel Rothschild, looks at the ways in which public policy has had negative unintended consequences on the ability of communities to make informed decisions about sustainable rebuilding after Katrina. Based on fieldwork conducted over four months, Chamlee-Wright and Rothschild explain why social capital and signals generated by market and civil interactions are important to recovery efforts and how policy makers can encourage rather than retard grassroots rebuilding efforts. |
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After the Storm: Social Capital Regrouping in the Wake of Hurricane KatrinaWorking PapersEmily Chamlee-Wright August 23, 2006 This working paper examines the role social capital is playing in the post-Katrina recovery process, in particular, how social capital resources are being deployed to overcome the collective action problem associated with post-disaster recovery. |
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Government Dines on Katrina LeftoversNews Articles and Op-EdsDaniel Rothschild, Emily Chamlee-Wright June 15, 2006 "In the last nine months, liberal New Orleans has seen a radical transformation in beliefs about private property," write Emily Chamlee-Wright and Daniel Rothschild in this Wall Street Journal op-ed. The Mercatus Scholars discuss threatened property rights in a post-Katrina New Orleans. |
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Empowering Local Response in the Wake of DisasterSpeeches and PresentationsEmily Chamlee-Wright Emily Chamlee-Wright explains the importance of supporting bottom-up recovery efforts after natural disaster strikes. |
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