Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
- ISBN-10
- 0191037435
- ISBN-13
- 9780191037436
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983-01-20
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Author
- Amartya Sen
Description
This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis.
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- 1982
- 257 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
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- 1982
- 257 pages
- Paperback
- Clarendon Press
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- 1981
- 257 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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