Famine, Affluence, and Amorality

Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality

Affluence & Aging

Tom Stoppard: The Amorality of the Artist

To maintain a healthy balanced loyalty, whether to art or society, posits a debatable issue. The artist is always on the look out for the potential tension between those two realms. Therefore, one of the most painful dilemmas the artist finds is how to function in a society without sacrificing the aesthetic values of his/her work. In other words, the life-long awareness of failure which derives...

Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from Ireland, 1845-1850

10740 words This is an abbreviated version of a paper given at a conference on famine demography at Les Treilles, France, 25-30 May 1999. The longer version is available as Mokyr and Ó Gráda, 1999. We are grateful to co-participants for their comments.

Agricultural Head Rents, Pre-Famine and Post-Famine

N o country can ever be held in just estimation", proclaimed Arthur Y o u n g in 1780, " w h e n the rental of it is u n k n o w n " : and Y o u n g , in his Tour in Ireland, proceeded to estimate the rental of this country. 1 His w a s the rhetoric of the political arithmetician, but he w a s neither the first nor the last to e m b a r k o n aggregate calculations. Several of the best-known pa...