I'm actually saying the reverse and agreeing with you that there are market efficient outcomes that should have been considered or done . In the Irish Potato famine around 1-2 million people left the country. Instead of preserving the workforce they opted for a short term market equilibrium of selling the food to people that could pay and not performing some kind of tax that would feed the needy. The previous Tory government tried to do some charity but then the incoming government did a more of a hands off approach which is an incorrect response. So yes the Irish Potato famine was the result of a market efficient equilibrium that shouldn't have been allowed to occur.
