This book brings together the views and predictions of leading economists published on VoxEU.org months before the developments of late 2008 in a volume that holds its own against the events that followed.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Eating People Is Wrong -- 2. "Sufficiency and Sufficiency and Sufficiency" -- 3. Markets and Famines -- 4. Great Leap into Great Famine -- 5. Famine Is Not the Problem - For Now -- Bibliography -- Index