Poverty and Famines

Poverty and Famines by Amartya Sen Fba

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--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.

The best book on famine available--important theoretical perspective, good case-study material* Barbara D. Miller, Cornell University *

Amartya Sen is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, a distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master. In 1988, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science.

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ISBN 13	9780198284635
ISBN 10	0198284632
Title	Poverty and Famines
Author	Amartya Sen Fba
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1983-01-20
Number of pages	270
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