Emily Chamlee-Wright on The Economic Way Of Thinking & The Messiness Of The Social World

Summary: In February 2016, Hayek Program Don C. Lavoie Senior Fellow Virgil Storr sat down with Emily Chamlee-Wright, President & CEO of the Institute for Humane Studies and alumna of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship program, to discuss her research on economics and culture. In Part 1 of this interview, Chamlee-Wright discusses her time as a student at George Mason University, her work with her mentor Don Lavoie, her research on the role of culture in Austrian economics and post-disaster recovery, and her use of field-work in understanding the social world.