A highly critical account of Adam Smith's views on famine, which fail to recognize that you can have starvation in the midst of plenty.

Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine

The Voltaire Foundation is a world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship, publishing the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (previously SVEC), the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies, and the correspondences of several key French thinkers.

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