Economist Virgil Storr talks about the role of entrepreneurship after a natural disaster in this video from our friends at Universidad Francisco Marroquín.
Luis Figueroa has a conversation with Virgil Storr regarding his academic experience in the economic approach after natural disasters. Storr comments on his research after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and according to him, entrepreneurship rather than solidarity, is one of the most common quality individuals develop during such rough situations. They also discuss the role of politicians in these particular cases and comments on the lack of action and the expectations set in people which, eventually, are never met.
Dr. Storr is a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of Graduate Student Programs at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University. He is also a Research Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and the Don C. Lavoie Research Fellow in the Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at George Mason University. Additionally, he is the editor-in-chief of Studies in Emergent Order.
