Amartya Sen
(Nobel prize winning economist) made his name with a piece of research which led him to claim that no famine has been due to lack of food, but rather bad governance. Either deliberate from an occupying/dictatorial power, or incompetence. Some now question the evidence, but it's still worth a read.
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prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:54,
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