Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-04-13

Books mentioned on Selects: How Famines Work

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It's common knowledge that famines are usually caused by major droughts: Rain doesn't fall, crops don't grow, and people go hungry. But recent research suggests that while weather may trigger famines, they may actually be more of a human-made catastrophe.

Josh Clark discussed Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Development as Freedom

   Amartya Sen · at 30:03 · mentioned 2 times

   Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen is an influential economic work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that argues for the expansion of human freedom as both the primary end and the principal means of development.

   Discussed

   “Economist named Maria sin wrote a book called development is freedom and basically kind of backs up what we're talking about”

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