re: #399 Dark_Falcon

The new Lord John Russell Whig administration, influenced by their laissez-faire belief that the market would provide the food needed but at the same time ignoring the food exports to England,[61] then halted government food and relief works, leaving many hundreds of thousands of people without any work, money or food.

Hyper-Libertarian (economically at least) has already been tried. It led to the intensification of misery and death in Ireland 150-160 years ago.

That particular little citation you in the middle comes from a book on the subject in 1962. This has been known for a while.