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Author: Nona Martin Storr ,
Emily Chamlee-Wright (Beloit College USA) ,
Virgil Henry Storr (George Mason University, Virginia)
Publisher: Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Imprint: Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.322kg
ISBN: 9781942951148
ISBN 10: 1942951140
Publication Date: 05 June 2015
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Format: Paperback
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<b>About the Authors</b> Nona Martin Storr is an affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her work has focused on the political and social histories of disadvantaged communities. She holds a PhD in history from George Mason University and a MA in public history (with an emphasis in oral history) from Loyola University Chicago. Emily Chamlee-Wright is a senior research scholar and board member at the Mercatus Center. She is provost and dean of the college at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Her work examines the intersection between cultural and economic processes, and includes a groundbreaking body of work on community resilience in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, ethnographic research on female entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa, and theoretical work on cultural economy. Chamlee-Wright is the editor of <i>Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance</i> (Routledge 2015), which investigates the role institutions of liberal learning play in fostering habits of engaged citizenship and robust civil society. Virgil Henry Storr is a senior research fellow and director of Graduate Student Programs at the Mercatus Center. He is also a research associate professor in the department of economics at George Mason University. His work has focused on the relationship between culture and economic action, including research on the role of entrepreneurship in promoting community rebound after disasters. Storr is a coauthor of the forthcoming <i>Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship</i> (Palgrave 2015) with Stefanie Haeffele-Balch and Laura E. Grube. <b>About the Foreword Author</b> Peter Boettke is the vice president and director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center as well as the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism and a University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University. He has authored or coauthored 11 books, including his most recent, <i>Living Economics</i>.
