… is from page 8 of Cormac Ó Gráda’s 2015 paper “Neither Feast Nor Famine: England Before the Industrial Revolution,” which is chapter 1 of Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development (Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V.C. Nye, Eds., 2015):
Famines are nearly always linked to economic backwardness. Their virtual elimination globally (in peacetime) is one of the achievements of modern economic growth.
