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Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future (Hardcover)
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Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future (Hardcover)
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Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the
possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat
of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac O
Grada, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and
economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which
provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by
famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first
centuries. The book begins with a taboo topic. O Grada argues that
cannibalism, while by no means a universal feature of famines and
never responsible for more than a tiny proportion of famine deaths,
has probably been more common during very severe famines than
previously thought. The book goes on to offer new interpretations
of two of the twentieth century's most notorious and controversial
famines, the Great Bengal Famine and the Chinese Great Leap Forward
Famine. O Grada questions the standard view of the Bengal Famine as
a perfect example of market failure, arguing instead that the
primary cause was the unwillingness of colonial rulers to divert
food from their war effort. The book also addresses the role played
by traders and speculators during famines more generally, invoking
evidence from famines in France, Ireland, Finland, Malawi, Niger,
and Somalia since the 1600s, and overturning Adam Smith's claim
that government attempts to solve food shortages always cause
famines. Thought-provoking and important, this is essential reading
for historians, economists, demographers, and anyone else who is
interested in the history and possible future of famine.
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