Volume 38, Number 20 · December 5, 1991
How to Stop Hunger
By Robert M. Solow
Hunger and Public Action
by Jean Drèze, by Amartya Sen
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 373 pp., $16.95 (paper)
When I was a small boy, the traditional thing for a mother to say to a child who would not eat his vegetables was that he should 'remember the starving Armenians' and be ashamed of himself for wasting food. I would gladly have donated any amount of broccoli to the starving Armenians or to anyone else who was suffering even mild discomfort, but there seemed to be no practical way to do so.
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