The real heroes of the Katrina response were not first responders (as in 9/11) but church leaders and local businessmen who often violated bureaucratic rules—such as Baptist church networks ferrying families out of the city in vans—to rescue people.

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Peter Boettke

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the real hero that crisis were the church leaders who actually violated what they were told by the officials by boating clubs

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Peter Boettke on Hurricane Katrina and the Economics of Disaster 12/18/2006EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:29:22 AM

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