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Item Type:Įntitlement and food availability decline (FAD) – the use of fraud and abuse in famine economicsįamine food availability decline FAD fraud abuse It would be better to use the vast amount of testable and tested economics of food markets, which combine hard fact and hard theory. Similarly, ‘entitlement’ is used in abuse aimed at suppressing this evidence. 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. It is doubtful whether any significant number of economists ever held this belief. There is such a wide range of beliefs covered by the term ‘FAD’ that it has no analytical use.

Amartya Sen’s ideological belief systems, ‘food availability decline’ (FAD) and
