Steven Horwitz
Over at Reason, Jesse Walker has a nice review essay from the May issue of the print magazine on a book that looks at the "extraordinary communities" that emerge in disasters. In particular, the book and Walker go after the largely mythical reports that post-disaster environments are full of chaos and violence as opposed to the reality, which mostly involves the unplanned emergence of new forms of social cooperation. The links to Emily Chamlee-Wright and Virgil Storr's work (as well as other folks on the Katrina project at Mercatus) are obvious, and I have it on good authority that Walker has Emily's book on his reading list.
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