Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen

Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

Amartya Sen

270 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis.

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