Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future 0691165351, 978-0-691-16535-6

Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by t

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Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
 0691165351, 978-0-691-16535-6

Table of contents :
Content: Eating people is wrong: famine's darkest secret? --
"Sufficiency and sufficiency and sufficiency": revisiting the Great Bengal famine of 1943-44 --
Markets and famines: pre-industrial Europe and beyond --
Great leap into great famine --
Famine is not the problem--for now.

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