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1. The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery

   Social Learning in a post-disaster environment

   By Emily Chamlee-Wright

   Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics

   In August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of a home that had been severely damaged or destroyed; frequently they also lost their entire neighbourhood and the social systems that under normal circumstances made...

   Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge
2. Culture and Enterprise

   The Development, Representation and Morality of Business

   By Emily Chamlee-Wright, The late Don Lavoie

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   What is the animating 'spirit' behind what may appear to be the coldly calculating world of markets and business enterprise? Though often mathematically modelled in dry terms, markets can be looked at instead as meaningful domains of human activity. To economists, markets have been seen as nothing...

   Published February 27th 2001 by Routledge
3. The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development

   Urban Female Entrepreneurship in Ghana

   By Emily Chamlee-Wright

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   Chalmlee-Wright argues that international aid programmes have often been unsuccessful because they are imported. The economics of the Austrian School provide a far stronger theoretical framework which can introduce cultural analysis into questions of economic development and other market processes....

   Published October 8th 1997 by Routledge