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SUMMARY:The Irish Famine: Britain’s Biggest Economic Policy Failure? - C
 harles Read (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20121029T130000Z
DTEND:20121029T140000Z
UID:TALK41125@talks.cam.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTION:"The Almighty\, indeed\, sent the potato blight\, but the Engl
 ish created the Famine". (John Mitchel) Nationalist and revisionist histor
 ians have furiously debated British culpability for the famine\, instead o
 f examining modern Britain's worst social and economic disaster in terms o
 f economic policy. This paper takes this new approach to topic\, arguing t
 hat instead of the British running a "laissez-faire" policy towards the fa
 mine\, there was a consistent relief policy based on supply-side ideas pop
 ular at the time. But these policies misunderstood the underlying cause of
  the famine\, a collapse in monetary incomes\, which instead accidentally 
 made Ireland's problems in the 1840s much worse. 
LOCATION:Room 101\, Sir William Hardy Building\, Downing Site
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