Tag: famine
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The Economics of Famine in Historical Perspective
An analytical history of famine as an economic and political phenomenon, drawing on Amartya Sen's entitlement theory to reinterpret the Irish Famine, the Bengal Famine of 1943, and the Chinese Great Leap Forward as crises of distribution and power rather than agricultural failure. Examines why democratic accountability changes famine outcomes.
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The Economics of Famine as Policy
Examine famine as an economic policy outcome — the Irish Famine's relationship to laissez-faire ideology, the Bengal Famine as Amartya Sen's entitlement failure paradigm, what Malthusian ideology contributed to 19th-century famine responses, and what famine history reveals about how economic ideology shapes institutional responses to catastrophic market failures.
