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  • Virgil Henry Storr

    Dr. Storr is a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of Graduate Student Programs at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University.

    He is also a Research Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and the Don C. Lavoie Research Fellow in the Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at George Mason University. Additionally, he is the editor-in-chief of Studies in Emergent Order.

    His writings on Community Recovery & Redevelopment, Comparative Political Economy, Culture & Markets and Bahamian Studies have been published or are forthcoming in Rationality & Society, the Journal of Urban Affairs, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, the Review of Austrian Economics and several other scholarly publications.

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Understanding Post-Katrina Community Recovery

Along with his frequent co-author Dr. Chamlee-Wright, Dr. Virgil Henry Storr has written extensively on post-disaster recovery.

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The Connection Between Max Weber, Alfred Schutz and the Austrians

Dr. Storr will be teaching a graduate economic sociology seminar (syllabus here) during spring 2011 semester. This seminar will explore key writings within the “new economic sociology” and survey recent developments within the field. Special emphasis will be placed on how culture, norms, ideologies and values shape economic action and interaction. The first half of … Read more

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Re-thinking Nassau’s Bay Street

With frequent co-author Nona Martin, Dr. Storr has explored the social, politic al and economic significance of Bay Street Bahamas and investigated a number of the key historical events that have occurred on and helped to shape Bay Street. Their articles have been published or are forthcoming in Space and Culture, Island Studies Journal and the Journal of Caribbean History.

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“The Market as a Social Space”

“The Market as Social Space: On the Meaningful Extraeconomic Conversations that Can Occur in Markets” explores the noneconomic sociality that occurs in markets.

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