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How the profit-motive leads to famine 3 Articles

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    by Zelsa

    Profit has forever driven the most serious of offenses against humanity - from famine to flood. Profits and profit-margins can make logical, well-meaning people blind to the impact their corporate and personal behavior is...read more

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    by Dave On Fire

    One of the most striking and unambiguous conclusions one draws from economic history is that there has never been a famine in a working democracy. When famine strikes, it usually hits colonies and occupied territories (Ind...read more

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    by Bob Seery

    The Great Bengal famine of 1770 is destined to become the text-book example of how the profit-motive can cause famine. For it is one of the earliest and most devastating examples of the dangers inherent in concentrating la...read more

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