What Caused the Irish Potato Famine?

Tags: Interventionism, Other Schools of Thought, Free Markets

02/26/2018 Mark Thornton

Was the Potato Famine an ecological accident, as historians usually say, or a politically created one? Text version: "What Caused the Irish Potato Famine?" Narrated by Chris Calton.

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