Poverty and Famines

Poverty and Famines

By
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
1982 • 270 pages

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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