Deaths of the Poor, Responsibilities of the Rich
June 18, 2002
Jeffrey Sachs*
*Jeffrey D. Sachs is Galen L. Stone Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for International Development, Harvard University.
In a shocking book of last year entitled Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis described the British Empire's attitude to famines in India and elsewhere. When monsoons failed, millions of Indians faced imminent death. Food could have been transported by rail within British India to s |