Markets and Famines

Name: Markets and Famines
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ISBN: 9780198287278

ISBN-10: 0198287275

ISBN-13: 9780198287278

Edition: 1987 (Reprint)

Authors: Martin Ravallion

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Famines have presented a persistent challenge to economic thought, provoking debates over the importance of aggregate food availability and the role of markets and governments in allocating limited food. This study of the economics of famine applies some modern methods of economic investigation to such issues, showing how the sharp increases in mortality observed during famines can arise without a decline in aggregate food availability, and how the markets' use of information about future scarcity is crucial to their performance during a famine. Including a detailed empirical investigation of the 1974 famine in Bangladesh, this book sheds new light on the way markets work during famines and…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/22/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.638