Contains 19 papers collected from such publications as the Journal of Development Economics, Nutrition and Poverty, and Oxford Economic Papers. Organized into t

History.

Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europ

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappea

The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--t