Introduction : uncertainty and discovery in a post-disaster context / Emily Camlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr ; Uncertainty in the post-Katrina Big Easy / Adam Martin -- The use of knowledge in natural disaster relief management / Russel S. Sobel, Peter T. Leeson -- Making hurricane response...

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina posed an unprecedented set of challenges to formal and informal systems of disaster response and recovery. Informed by the Virginia School of Political Economy, the contributors to this study critically examine the public policy environment that led to both successes...

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina posed an unprecedented set of challenges to formal and informal systems of disaster response and recovery. Informed by the Virginia School of Political Economy, the contributors to this study critically examine the public policy environment that led to both successes...

pt. I. Theoretical frame and methodology -- pt. II. Deploying socially embedded resources in a post-disaster context -- pt. III. Political-economy and social learning in non-priced environments -- pt. IV. Appendices.

1. Introduction -- 2. Economists should study culture -- 3. But economists often misunderstand the relationship between culture and markets -- 4. Economists ought to be looking at the spirits that animate markets -- 5. This does not mean that economists have to abandon economics.

pt. 1. Cultivating the habits of self-governance in the classroom -- pt. 2. Place, community, and context : cultivating the habits of self-governance beyond the traditional classroom -- pt. 3. The generative power of social abrasion and social spaces -- pt. 4. Self-governing norms and practices...