Unlike the governmental response to Hurricane Katrina, the disaster recovery efforts that followed the catastrophic tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, in 2011 provide a model worth emulating. City and state officials facilitated recovery by temporarily relaxing regulations, hiring extra building inspectors, waiving state procurement and bidding rules, and resisting the temptation to micromanage.
Daniel J. Smith is the Director of the Political Economy Research Institute and a Professor of Economics and Finance in the Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University.
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Daniel S. Sutter is the Charles G. Koch Professor with the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy, Sorrell College of Business, Troy University.
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Other Independent Review articles by Daniel J. Smith
Winter 2021/22 Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
Summer 2020 Breaking Bad: Public Pensions and the Loss of That Old-Time Fiscal Religion
Winter 2017/18 The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
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Other Independent Review articles by Daniel S. Sutter
Spring 2018 The Blockchain and Increasing Cooperative Efficacy
Winter 2011/12 Mechanisms of Liberal Bias in the News Media versus the Academy
Spring 2010 Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do about It
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