Alms

I think BC and some reviewers may have misunderstood - Greg Clarke's Farewell to Alms is about the * escape* from the Malthusian trap in modernizing societies: firstly in England around 1800.

The Malthusian Zombie, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

At a short distance from this building is another called the Alms

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For example, in 2006, after Mahfouz filed a libel claim, Cambridge University Press announced that it would halt the sale of all unsold copies of its book titled Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World, written by Robert O. Collins, a former professor of history from the University of California, and J. Millard Burr, a former State Department employee.

Americans Against Hate 2008

For example, in 2006, after Mahfouz filed a libel claim, Cambridge University Press announced that it would halt the sale of all unsold copies of its book titled Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World, written by Robert O. Collins, a former professor of history from the University of California, and J. Millard Burr, a former State Department employee.

Americans Against Hate 2008

For example, in 2006, after Mahfouz filed a libel claim, Cambridge University Press announced that it would halt the sale of all unsold copies of its book titled Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World, written by Robert O. Collins, a former professor of history from the University of California, and J. Millard Burr, a former State Department employee.

Americans Against Hate 2008

I wrote about Gregory Clark's new book, A Farewell to Alms, here, and I've mentioned in a several posts since.

Farewell to Alms Watch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: I feel like this book is too new and non-classic and I read it too recently for it to deserve a place on this list.

Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

Alms houses built by Sir William Pickles Hartley, of Hartley's Jam fame, in 1911.

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But it is a performance, an act of bravery, for in his hand is the written plea: "Give Me Alms, for the Love of God."

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Near the end of his very interesting book, A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark also does a bit of work toward developing the idea that the role of “incentives” in economic growth is overstated.

Matthew Yglesias » The Ideology of Incentives 2009