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Rafaelcmatheus Posted 12 years ago
Business & Finance
famine prices
What is the meaning of 'famine prices'. Are they low or high prices?
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Can you provide more context about where you read this and what the article was about?
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I read this in the Hobsbawn's book 'Age of Revolution', in the chapter in which he discusses the antecedents of the French Revolution. The exact excerpt is the following:
A bad harvest in 1788 (and 1789) and a very difficult winter made this crisis acute. Bad harvests hurt the peasantry, for while they meant that large producers could sell grain at famine prices, the majority of
A bad harvest in 1788 (and 1789) and a very difficult winter made this crisis acute. Bad harvests hurt the peasantry, for while they meant that large producers could sell grain at famine prices, the majority of
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rafaelcmatheus I think in a logical sense it must mean high prices,That is correct. Using logic about real situations is an important part of language learning.
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