[PEN-L:8308] RE: Re: Re: Bengali famine

["Lisa & Ian Murray" <seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As was Ireland...

ian

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> Subject: [PEN-L:8287] Re: Re: Bengali famine
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> Brad De Long wrote:
> > Your fight is with Amartya Sen--not me.
> >
> > But my strong impression is that you have lost the argument already.
> >
> > Sen is not dumb, is careful, and rarely makes mistakes...
> >
>
> He uses the most amount of footnotes I've seen too. If I remember,
> didn't Sen point out that India  was actually  exporting food during
> its famines?
>
> Sam Pawlett
>