[lbo-talk] Free Market Genocides

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Aug 5 15:51:19 PDT 2008


On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, dredmond at efn.org wrote:


> There's another, more recent example which doesn't get a lot of
> air-time: Imperial Britain's murder of 2-3 million Bengalis in 1943.

It's a key example, but I'm not sure you can say it hasn't gotten a lot of airtime. Amartya Sen basically won his nobel prize for his book based on this famine. And IIUC since his book came out it's now accepted as a general rule that vanishingly few famines come from there being no food. Rather they come from there being no food at a price the starving can afford.

Michael



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