Libertarians on Katrina, New Orleans, and the State

Michael Barnett: The Interdictor (a.k.a. the Survivor of New Orleans blog)

Mises.org: “The State and the Flood” (article, blog post); “New Orleans, State-Planning, and the Free Market” (blog post); “A Government Flood” (blog post); “Is this the first spotting of the ‘Broken Window’ fallacy?” (blog post); “A Price Gouging Reader” (blog post).

LewRockwell.com: “Conservatives on New Orleans” (blog post 1, 2)

David Heinrich: “LIVE from New Orleans with Michael Barnett

Mark Brady at Liberty & Power: “The Economics of Looting in Devastated Areas

Daniel D’Amico at Austrian Addiction: “New Orleans chaos and order

Dappled Things: “What did they do to deserve the hurricane?

Eric’s Grumbles Before the Grave: “Katrina – More on the Politics“; “Katrina – More on Libertarian Principles“; “Katrina – Economic Fallacies“; also, see his blog for relief efforts.

The Liberty Belles: “Katrina as Cash Cow

Marginal Revolution: “How to leave town“; “A short recent history of FEMA

The Austrian Economists: “Bastiat Spinning; Hazlitt Heaving“; “Catastrophe

Vodkapundit: “Cluster-F

I may compile more later if I get time.

Geoffrey is an Aristotelian-Libertarian political philosopher, writer, editor, and web designer. He is the founder of the Libertarian Fiction Authors Association. His academic work has appeared in Libertarian Papers, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Transformers and Philosophy. He lives in Greenville, NC.