Respected economist Robert Albritton argues that the capitalist system, far from delivering on the promise of cheap, nutritious food for all, has created a world where 25 percent of the world population are over-fed and 25 percent are hungry. This malnourishment of half of the world’s population is explained systematically, a refreshing change from accounts that focus on cultural factors and individual greed. Albritton details the economic relations and connections that have put us in a situation of simultaneous oversupply and undersupply of food. This explosive book provides yet more evidence that the human cost of capitalism is much bigger than those in power will admit.
Marx understood the dynamics of the current food crisis over a century ago. Robert Albritton has written a fine primer, bridging the best thinking of the nineteenth century to the urgent needs of the twenty-first.”
— Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
| Subject | Political Science/Public Policy/Economic Policy |
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| Published | April 2009 |
| Price | $21.95 CDN |
| Pages | 272 pp (Paper) |
| Dimensions | 5.3″ × 8.46″ × 0.75″ |
| ISBN-10 | 1-894037-38-3 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1894037-38-9 |
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