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Entitlement and food availability decline (FAD) – the use of fraud and abuse in famine economics

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Amartya Sen’s ideological belief systems, ‘food availability decline’ (FAD) and ‘entitlement’ are examined. There is such a wide range of beliefs covered by the term ‘FAD’ that it has no analytical use. It is doubtful whether any significant number of economists ever held this belief. Many academics use ‘FAD’ as a term of abuse to suppress theory and evidence which they would rather not believe, such as criticisms of Sen’s empirical economics. Similarly, ‘entitlement’ is used in abuse aimed at suppressing this evidence. It would be better to use the vast amount of testable and tested economics of food markets, which combine hard fact and hard theory.

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  • Bowbrick, Peter, 2022. "Entitlement and food availability decline (FAD) – the use of fraud and abuse in famine economics," MPRA Paper 115133, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    famine; food availability decline; FAD; fraud; abuse;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture
    • Q11 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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