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The book 'Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation' was written by

  1. A.Jean Dreze
  2. B.Amartya Sen
  3. C.Abhijit Banerjee
  4. D.Thomas Piketty

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B. Amartya Sen

Explanation

The correct answer is B, Amartya Sen. Amartya Sen published this book in 1981 and showed, using the Bengal famine among other cases, that famines occur not merely because food is short in a country but because groups of people lose the ability to command food, which he called a failure of entitlement; the work was central to the Nobel Memorial Prize awarded to him in 1998. Option A is wrong because Jean Dreze is Sen's co-author on Hunger and Public Action and An Uncertain Glory, not on this book. Option C is wrong because Abhijit Banerjee wrote Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times together with Esther Duflo. Option D is wrong because Thomas Piketty wrote Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a study of the concentration of income and wealth in rich countries.

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  2. B.Adam Smith
  3. C.Thomas Malthus
  4. D.John Stuart Mill
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  1. A.Chandragupta Maurya
  2. B.Kalidasa
  3. C.Kautilya
  4. D.Megasthenes
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  1. A.Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  2. B.Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. C.R. C. Dutt
  4. D.Mahadev Govind Ranade
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  1. A.Friedrich Engels
  2. B.Karl Marx
  3. C.Vladimir Lenin
  4. D.Friedrich Hayek
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Correct answer: B. Karl Marx

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  1. A.Alfred Marshall
  2. B.John Maynard Keynes
  3. C.Paul Samuelson
  4. D.Milton Friedman
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