Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation Reprint Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0198284635
ISBN-10: 0198284632
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Comment: This is the 1984 British edition but the cover is the same, only much more faded than the picture shown. The covers have some light shelf wear and minor creasing to the hinges and corners. The spine remains free of creasing. The pages have a few pencil marks but are overall very clean and quite readable. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!
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"[The] best book on famine available--important theoretical perspective, good case-study material."--Barbara D. Miller,
Cornell University


"Embodies the best tradition of social science....Empirical and rational, yet neither virtue is pushed to the point where human beings are forgotten."--
The Economist


"A truly seminal book....[Has] helped to shift the attention of policy-makers and international organizations away from excessive concentration on food production to broader issues of 'food security.'"--
International Affairs


From the Back Cover

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.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (January 20, 1983)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198284632
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198284635
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1630L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.35 x 0.67 x 8.5 inches
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Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1998-2004. His many books include Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom, The Argumentative Indian and Identity and Violence.


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