Post-war and Disaster Reconstruction

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Christopher Coyne

F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center
Professor of Economics at George Mason University

Christopher Coyne is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center and a member of the Department of Economics at George Mason University. He is also the North American Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics, a member of the Board of Scholars for the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, and he was named the Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2008.

Hilton Root

Mercatus Center Affiliated Senior Scholar
Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy at George Mason University

Dr. Hilton Root, an academic and policy specialist in international political economy and development, joined the faculty of the School of Public Policy at George Mason University in the summer of 2006. In 2007 he joined the Mercatus Center as an affiliated senior scholar. His areas of expertise are international economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian affairs.

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Rationality and Society

Club Goods and Post-Disaster Community Return

Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr | Nov 01, 2009

Hurricane Katrina caused over one hundred billion dollars in property damage in the Greater New Orleans region. Although much attention has been paid to why particular communities have begun to recover and others have failed to rebound, very little attention has been paid to how the communities that have recovered actually went about doing so. This paper attempts to close that gap by examining how the church provision of club goods can foster social cooperation and community redevelopment in the wake of a disaster.