It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.

— Jean-Baptiste Say A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832)

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