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Editorial : From Publishers Weekly Author and University College Dublin economics professor Ó Gráda (Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce, Black '47 and Beyond) examines the causes of famine, from Biblical times to the present, in order to refute Parson Malthus' still-influential 1798 contention that unchecked population growth leads to famine. In case after case, (the Great Irish famine of the late 1840s, the Nazi blockade of Leningrad, etc.), Ó Gráda finds price spikes, crop failures, climate change, floods, droughts, civil strife and other factors behind devastating food shortages. While the effects of famine are horrible-including not just mass sickness and death but infanticide and child abandonment-the corresponding population decrease reverses relatively quickly, as compared to the effects of chronic malnutrition (associated to higher long term death rates and reduced fertility). History shows that famines "have nearly always been a hallmark of economic backwardnes
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