Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, established this result long ago. Specially in the case of the great Bengal famine but also modern famines gener

Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, established this result long ago. Specially in the case of the great Bengal famine but also modern famines generally are not due to a lack of food in the world but are a result of government mismanagement or war. [edit] I believe the book is Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation.