Crisis Recovery - An Economic Perspective
Crisis Recovery - An Economic Perspective
About the Webinar
Recovering from crises and disasters is a daunting experience – the costs of recovery are significant, the benefits of recovery depend on other people in your community, and the uncertainty of what life looks like post-disaster. In economics, this is viewed as a collective action problem and it can be logical to wait for others to act first. Yet, we have all experienced and had to recover from crises and disasters. Join Stefanie Haeffele as she discusses the role of local entrepreneurship and self-governance in how we do, indeed, go about recovery and what that means for policy.
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About the Speaker
Stefanie Haeffele
Dr. Stefanie Haeffele is a Senior Research Fellow and the Senior Program and Operations Director of Academic & Student Programs at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she works on a team aimed to recruit, train, and support graduate students pursuing careers in academia, government, and policy. She is also a Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. She has worked in emergency and disaster operations at both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and then the US Forest Service.