People wrongly assume that if government doesn't intentionally organize a solution, nothing will get done—forgetting that natural incentives push toward help even without agencies like FEMA; the real question is not whether help comes but how well voluntary versus coercive solutions perform for a given problem.

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Russ Roberts

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they sort of have in their mind that if government doesn't do it it won't get done... forgetting the fact that the incentives are still in place as Mill understood in a world without FEMA

Source

Peter Boettke on Hurricane Katrina and the Economics of Disaster 12/18/2006EconTalk
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