[investigateworld]

I've seen all the number crunching and 'international trade models', but my Irish ancestry keeps reminding me of the 1840s back in the old sod.
There was no reason on God's Green Earth for the potato crop failure to have caused all those deaths in that era.
But the free market decided the horses pulling cabs in London were more useful than the Irish farmers, hence the grain went to them.
I recognize that this is an extreme example, but human nature is still the same.

[Toddsterpatriot]

But the free market decided the horses pulling cabs in London were more useful than the Irish farmers, hence the grain went to them.

I'm not Irish, so I don't know the whole story, but didn't the British force the sale of the grain to England? Not much free market about it.

[A. Pole]

But the free market decided the horses pulling cabs in London were more useful than the Irish farmers, hence the grain went to them.

That is why the greedy freemarketeers can go to Hell (as many of them will).