Entitlement and food availability decline (FAD) – the use of fraud and abuse in famine economics

Peter Bowbrick

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Amartya Sen’s ideological belief systems, ‘food availability decline’ (FAD) and ‘entitlement’ are examined. There is such a wide range of beliefs covered by the term ‘FAD’ that it has no analytical use. It is doubtful whether any significant number of economists ever held this belief. Many academics use ‘FAD’ as a term of abuse to suppress theory and evidence which they would rather not believe, such as criticisms of Sen’s empirical economics. Similarly, ‘entitlement’ is used in abuse aimed at suppressing this evidence. It would be better to use the vast amount of testable and tested economics of food markets, which combine hard fact and hard theory.

Keywords: famine; food availability decline; FAD; fraud; abuse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q11 Q13 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-10-22
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