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  • Egon
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    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, because the was a shortage, but they need to keep grain price stable. If they didn't stockpile and allowed India to keep all the grain they needed to avert famine there would have been starvation in England.

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        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I'm no big historian in this topic, but I know that British policy was based on Smith's idea that grain prices need to remain stable. Which is why they stockpiled during famine in the periphery.