February, 2018
Learning from Disasters in Mississippi
Stefanie Haeffele
Senior Program and Operations Director, Academic and Student ProgramsVirgil Storr
Board Member, Mercatus Center

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This chapter examines disaster recovery in Mississippi and how policies that foster entrepreneurship might help spur disaster recovery and promote prosperity going forward. Based on our broader research on community recovery after Hurricane Katrina across the Gulf Coast and, specifically, in Mississippi, and after Hurricane Sandy in New York, we argue that entrepreneurs are key to disaster recovery. Entrepreneurs can spur community revival by increasing the benefits and reducing the costs associated with returning and rebuilding.
Mercatus Disaster Recovery Research
Peter J. Boettke