During the famine of 1899-1900, when 143,000 Beraris died directly from starvation, the province exported not only tens of thousands of bales of cotton but an incredible 747,000 bushels of grain.
A new discipline called behavioural economics has been studying whether people really do behave as the simplified model [in game theory] says they do. Their studies show that only 2 groups in society actually behave in a rational, self-interested way in all experimental situations. One is economists themselves; the other is psychopaths.