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| Title: | Adam Smith and Amartya Sen : markets and famines in pre-industrial Europe |
| Author: | Ó Gráda, Cormac |
| Author web links: | Cormac Ó Gráda (web page) |
| Author contacts: | Email: cormac.ograda@ucd.ie; Tel: +353 1 7168305 |
| Date: | Aug-2002 |
| Publisher: | University College Dublin, School of Economics |
| Series or research strand: | UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP02/18 |
| Type of material: | Working Paper |
| Abstract: | How markets perform during famines has long been a contentious issue. Recent research tends to associate famine with market segmentation and hoarding. The evidence of this paper, based on an analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of price movements during four famines in preindustrial Europe, is that markets functioned ‘normally’ in times of crisis. |
| Web link to reference this item: | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/497 |
| Subject Heading: | Famines--Europe; Markets--Europe; Food supply--Europe; |
| Other web versions: | Publisher's version |
| Status of Item: | Not peer reviewed |
| Availability: | Full text available |
| Appears in Collections: | Economists Online Collection & RePEc
Economics Working Papers & Policy Papers, 1982 -- August 2011
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