…problem. What they really mean is that it's an economic problem. Markets are entirely compatible with the notion of an underclass that cannot put food on the table, even amid abundance. Refer to the (e)book "Poverty and Famines" by Amartya Sen for examples and analysis. Exporting food while part of the populace starves isn't a stunt reserved for communist countries. Thought experiment: there's a village with 100 peasants and…
…Thomas Picketty, which has produced an abundance of material on the subject. FWIW Picketty seems to be much better at managing the internet battlefront, so it might be better to start with Sen's book "Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation" ($10 on kindle) and then judge what you see on the internet after having read Sen's argument. Sen was originally motivated to study economics when, as a boy,…
Analysis of the famines in Bangladesh and the role of speculation in them has been done by Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen, and the examples I've given are taken from his work Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation(1982). Regarding economics as a science, it is widely accepted by economists that it is not a precise science, and has no inviolable axioms like math, or anywhere…
++ for Amartya Sen. I think he first covered this in the book Poverty and Famines, where he drives home the point that famines can happen even if food is available and even if food prices have not been driven up sharply. Modern famine is a failure of government (war is an obvious cause,…
…Quoting Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen (sorry so long a quote but his work is fascinating and I'm interested to read other thoughts from this community )-- In 1981, Sen published Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), a book in which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for distributing food. Sen also…
My reference for this is "Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation" (Sen, 1981), based on analysis of historical famines and the author's own experience in Bengal. It contributed to him being awarded a "economics Nobel". The…
……问题。他们真正的意思是，这是个经济学问题。市场机制和“底层群体即便身处物资丰裕之中也吃不起饭”这一现象是完全兼容的。具体的例子和分析可以参考阿马蒂亚·森的（电子）书《贫困与饥荒》。一边闹饥荒一边出口粮食并不是共产主义国家的专属操作。做个思想实验：有个村子有100个农民，并且……
…problem. What they really mean is that it's an economic problem. Markets are entirely compatible with the notion of an underclass that cannot put food on the table, even amid abundance. Refer to the (e)book "Poverty and Famines" by Amartya Sen for examples and analysis. Exporting food while part of the populace starves isn't a stunt reserved for communist countries. Thought experiment: there's a village with 100 peasants and…
……托马斯·皮凯蒂，关于这主题已经产出了海量资料。据我所知（FWIW），皮凯蒂似乎更擅长打网络舆论战，所以可能先读森的书《贫困与饥荒》（Kindle 上10美元）会更好，读完森的论点之后再来评判你在网上看到的东西。森最初萌生学习经济学的想法，是因为他小时候……
…Thomas Picketty, which has produced an abundance of material on the subject. FWIW Picketty seems to be much better at managing the internet battlefront, so it might be better to start with Sen's book "Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation" ($10 on kindle) and then judge what you see on the internet after having read Sen's argument. Sen was originally motivated to study economics when, as a boy,…
诺贝尔经济学奖得主阿马蒂亚·森曾对孟加拉饥荒以及投机行为在其中的作用进行过分析，我给出的例子就出自他的著作《贫困与饥荒》（1982年）。关于经济学算不算一门科学，经济学家普遍承认它并不是一门精密科学，没有任何像数学那样不可违背的公理，或者任何……
Analysis of the famines in Bangladesh and the role of speculation in them has been done by Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen, and the examples I've given are taken from his work Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation(1982). Regarding economics as a science, it is widely accepted by economists that it is not a precise science, and has no inviolable axioms like math, or anywhere…
必须给阿马蒂亚·森点赞（++）。我觉得他最早是在《贫困与饥荒》这本书里探讨这一点的，他在书中深入阐明了一个核心观点：即便粮食供应充足、粮价没有暴涨，饥荒也同样可能发生。现代饥荒本质上是政府失灵（战争显然是一个原因，……
++ for Amartya Sen. I think he first covered this in the book Poverty and Famines, where he drives home the point that famines can happen even if food is available and even if food prices have not been driven up sharply. Modern famine is a failure of government (war is an obvious cause,…
……引用一下维基百科——http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen（抱歉引了这么长一段，但他的研究实在太引人入胜了，我很想看看这个社区里其他人的想法）——1981年，森出版了《贫困与饥荒》，他在书中指出，饥荒的发生不仅是因为缺少粮食，更是因为粮食分配机制中固有的不平等。森还……
…Quoting Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen (sorry so long a quote but his work is fascinating and I'm interested to read other thoughts from this community )-- In 1981, Sen published Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), a book in which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for distributing food. Sen also…
我这方面的参考资料是《贫困与饥荒》（森，1981年），基于对历史上几场饥荒的分析以及作者自己在孟加拉的亲身经历。这本书促成了他荣获“诺贝尔经济学奖”。其……
My reference for this is "Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation" (Sen, 1981), based on analysis of historical famines and the author's own experience in Bengal. It contributed to him being awarded a "economics Nobel". The…