Peter Boettke on Katrina, Ten Years After

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🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Pete Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political and economic lessons he has learned as program director of research in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In this wide-ranging conversation, Boettke discusses the role of civil society, the barriers to recovery that have hampered New Orleans and what worked well as people and institutions responded to tragedy and devastation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.7	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.7	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:25.8	going back to 2006.
0:28.2	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.7	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.1	Today is September 11, 2015, and my guest is Pete Betke, a university professor of economics
0:40.4	and philosophy at George Mason University, the BB and T professor for the study of capitalism
0:46.4	and the director of the FAI program for advanced study in philosophy, politics, and economics
0:52.0	at the Mercatius Center at George Mason.
0:54.2	Pete, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:55.8	Thanks for having me, Russ.
0:57.7	Our topic for today is the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
1:03.3	We first talked about this in December of 2006, and you actually confessed to me before
1:10.0	we started recording that you went back and listened to that episode, because it excites
1:14.0	me no end.
1:15.5	I did not.
1:16.5	I kind of wanted to come back fresh to it, because I'm sure most listeners don't remember
1:21.7	that episode.
1:22.7	That was a while ago.
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