「Profit Inflation, Keynes and the Holocaust in Bengal, 1943–44」という論文をMostly Economicsが紹介している。著者はジャワハルラール・ネルー大学名誉教授のUtsa Patnaik。以下はその要旨。 The year 2018 marks the 75th anniversary of the Bengal famine, 1943–44. This paper argues that the famine arose from an engineered “profit inflation,” described by John Maynard Keynes in general terms as a necessary measure for “forced transferences of purchasing