Virgil Henry Storr

Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Don C. Lavoie Senior Fellow, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Senior Vice President, Research and Programs, Mercatus Center

  • The political economy of Covid-19

    Over the course of the pandemic, my colleagues and I have written several papers that explored the political economy of Covid-19. “Entrepreneurship during a pandemic” (with Stefanie Haeffele, Jordan K. Lofthouse, and Anne Hobson), European Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming. …

  • Entrepreneurial Alertness

    Dr. Storr has written extensively on the (cultural) determinants of entrepreneurial alertness. In addition to his books Enterprising Slaves and Master Pirates (Peter Lang, 2004) and Understanding the Culture…

  • Grover Cleveland against the Special Interests

    “Grover Cleveland against the Special Interests” (with Stefanie Haeffele-Balch) The Independent Review Dr. Storr continues his research on Comparative Political Economy in “Grover Cleveland against…

  • Markets as Social and Moral Spaces

    The market is a space where commercial as well as social bonds develop. Rather than being antithetical to community, the market is an arena where…

  • Understanding the Culture of Markets (Routledge, 2012)

    Understanding the Culture of Markets explores how culture shapes economic activity and describes how social scientists (especially economists) should incorporate considerations of culture into their analysis. Although most social scientists recognize that culture shapes economic behavior and outcomes, the majority…

  • Re-thinking Nassau’s Bay Street

    Throughout the 20th century, Nassau’s Bay Street was the main commercial district in The Bahamas. … Nassau’s Bay Street, as the home of the country’s…

  • “The Market as a Social Space”

    Dr. Virgil Storr’s article “The Market as Social Space: On the Meaningful Extraeconomic Conversations that Can Occur in Markets” published in The Review of Austrian…

  • 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. Their edited volume The Political Economy of Hurricane…