List of figures and tables
The Third Horseman. The ultimate check
How common were famines in the past?
The Horrors of Famine. Crime
Prostitution, infanticide, and child abandonment
Prevention and Coping. Famine foods
Country misers and calculating merchants
Famine Demography. Hierarchies of suffering
What do people die of during famines?
Markets and Famines. Profiteers
French Économistes and Adam Smith
Markets and famines in practice
Entitlements : Bengal and Beyond. Bengal
Food supply and market failure
Public and Private Action. Feeding the starving
NGOs and the globalization of relief
Famine relief as state aid
The "Violence of Government." War by another means
The Chinese famine of 1959-61
Climate and desertification
Where backwardness persists
