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Democratic Peace Theory
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThis is similar to (or possibly a superset of) the theory that famines are impossible in democracies. When you look at historical famines, it generally turns out that it was inflicted on a specific group of people for political reasons, often as part of a war, rather than a purely natural phenomenon. > Few scholars have left more of a mark on the field of development economics than Amartya Sen. ... Sen is famous for his assertion that famines do not occur in democracies. ''No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,'' he wrote in ''Democracy as Freedom'' (Anchor, 1999).