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		<title>Why did the Roman Economy Decline?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Brown of Princeton University is one of Mark Koyama&#8217;s favorite historians of late antiquity, but Koyama doesn&#8217;t agree with Brown&#8217;s explanation for why the Roman economy declined: In The Rise of Western Christendom, Brown summarizes the new wisdom on the transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages. He accepts that this transition brought [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Malthus was Late</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/malthus-was-late/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malthus was wrong, Matt Ridley says, but Malthus wasn&#8217;t wrong, Steve Sailer notes — he was late: Gregory Clark&#8217;s A Farewell to Alms documents, using English public records such as wills from 1200 to 1800, that the English over these 600 years were using Malthus&#8217;s 1798 advice to engage in &#8220;moral restraint&#8221; avant la lettre. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Population Models</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/02/population-models/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the site for their new book, The 10,000 Year Explosion, Cochran and Harpending share some &#8220;deleted scenes&#8221; that didn&#8217;t make it into the book, including this piece, which examines some simple population models and demonstrates an interesting result when you add a lethal disease &#8212; malaria, in this example &#8212; into the mix: There [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Culture of Prosperity</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/09/the-culture-of-prosperity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfgang Kasper examines The Culture of Prosperity while reviewing Gregory Clark&#8217;s A Farewell to Alms, comparing Clark&#8217;s lists of pre- and post-industrial vices and virtues to Jane Jacobs&#8217; lists of cultural attributes for the guardian moral syndrome and the commercial moral syndrome (from her Systems of Survival): To my mind, Jacobs’ list fully circumscribes the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Malthusian Trap</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/03/the-malthusian-trap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Kling&#8217;s recent review of Gregory Clark&#8217;s A Farewell to Alms reminded me that, although I&#8217;ve discussed it before, I&#8217;ve been meaning to write something more substantial, now that I&#8217;ve read the whole book myself. Clark emphasizes the Malthusian Trap that pre-modern societies face. He explains it briefly in How To Save Africa: Before the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bryan Caplan&#8217;s Critique of A Farewell to Alms</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/09/bryan-caplans-critique-of-a-farewell-to-alms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In A Farewell to Alms: Overview of My Critique, Bryan Caplan starts by criticizing Gregory Clark&#8217;s understanding of Malthusianism: Even worse, Clark repeatedly misstates the implications of his own model. He delights in counterintuitive claims like &#8220;[I]n 1776, when the Malthusian economy still governed human welfare in England, the calls of Adam Smith for restraint [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Institutional changes prerequisite to the industrial revolution</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/09/institutional-changes-prerequisite-to-the-industrial-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In discussing Gregory Clark&#8217;s A Farewell to Alms, Nick Szabo counters Clark&#8217;s claim that England experienced no significant institutional improvements from 1300 to 1800. Here is his list of institutional changes prerequisite to the industrial revolution: The mechanical clock, 14th century. The resulting rise of clock culture and the time wage may have slowly but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to Alms, pp.112-192</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/08/farewell-to-alms-pp-112-192/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/08/farewell-to-alms-pp-112-192/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Cowen discusses Farewell to Alms, pp.112-192 and again spawns some fascinating discussion. Read the previous installment, if you haven&#8217;t already.]]></description>
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		<title>A Farewell to Alms, pp.1-112</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/08/a-farewell-to-alms-pp-1-112/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/08/a-farewell-to-alms-pp-1-112/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Cowen discusses A Farewell to Alms, pp.1-112 and spawns some fascinating discussion. Read the whole thing.]]></description>
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		<title>A Farewell to Alms</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/08/a-farewell-to-alms/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/08/a-farewell-to-alms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Wade reviews Gregory Clark&#8217;s A Farewell to Alms for the New York Times: Gregory Clark, an economic historian at the University of California, Davis, believes that the Industrial Revolution — the surge in economic growth that occurred first in England around 1800 — occurred because of a change in the nature of the human [&#8230;]]]></description>
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