Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129344 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP15/10
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
This short paper revisits two questions that were central to Joel Mokyr's Why Ireland Starved (2nd edition, 1985). These are, first, what determined the variation in population change across Ireland during the Great Famine decade of 1841-1851 and, second, whether and in what sense can pre-famine Ireland be characterized as 'malthusian'.
Subjects: 
famine
Malthus
population
Ireland
JEL: 
N3
B3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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