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    <body><![CDATA[Sen's theory fundamentally holds water.  I'm not sure how this would hold up to the reader who doesn't really care that much about political economy, but I thought it was awfully interesting, showing how the murky waters of entitlement separate a populace from its own food supply, leading to tragedy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34052370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in Ireland in a Poverty and Famine class and it changed the way I think (cheesy, I know).  I keep buying books by this guy and meaning to read them, but I haven't yet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Important, beautifully structured, and extremely well-argued - social science at its best.]]></body>
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