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Re: Sen and the 1943 Bengal Famine
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Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:18:37 +0000
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Rob,

I don't know anything about small coins being the "cause" (and this sounds awfully suspicious), but take a look at Madhusree Mukerjee, Churchill's Secret War. This goes way beyond Sen and is a fairly detailed account of the events.

John

John F. Henry
Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2449

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From: Societies for the History of Economics [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Rob Tye [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: [SHOE] Sen and the 1943 Bengal Famine

Can anyone with a better knowledge than I of Amartya Sen’s work on the 1943
Bengal Famine throw light on the following matter?  Historical sources
suggest that hoarding of small coin was an important, or even the primary
cause of the famine.  Yet summaries of Sen’s work do not seem to mention
that matter at all.  Did he ever deal with that suggestion?

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