The ways in which culture colors economic action has become an important question within economics. Austrian economists are particularly poised to contribute to this discussion because of their belief that economics is a science driven by the values, social relations and the belief systems of...

Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The entrepreneur as a driver of social change -- How entrepreneurs promote post-disaster community rebound -- How entrepreneurship promotes community recovery : the cases of hurricanes katrina and sandy -- Goods and services providers -- Regrowing...

Culture has been a relatively understudied subject within economics. Economists who have studied it often conceive culture as a form of capital, treating it as a set of tools or a resource that certain groups possess and other groups do not. Austrian economics, in contrast, is a science of human...