Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger: Famines, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates

Abstract

This chapter examines famines, chronic malnutrition, mortality rates, and European escape from hunger. It provides evidence indicating that the elimination of crisis mortality accounted for only a small part of the decline in national mortality rates during the 19th century. The chapter also provides an alternative hypothesis which makes sharp changes in the distribution of food grains, resulting from relatively small shortfalls in output which is the principal cause of periodic famines.

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