Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie is in dialogue with Professor Walter Scheidel (Stanford) on "What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?" at the Newell Classics Event. This event is Cambridge's most prestigious occasion for public-facing classical scholarship, and takes place on the 2nd May 2019 in the Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.
Economics Events | Published on Monday, 15 April, 2024
Event location: Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John’s College
Event date: May 2, 2019
Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
Reading Economics at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate from 1967 to 1970, and a member of Trinity College, he graduated with a first class degree.
Economics News | Published on Monday, 13 March, 2023
“Funnily enough, it all began in the autumn last year, with an unexpected phone call while I was sitting down to have my lunch, when a BBC researcher asked if I could explain how bonds worked,” explains Victoria Bateman, who specialises in economi
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 7 November, 2022
The Faculty's Victoria Bateman takes part in a new BBC Radio 4 economics series on “Understand: the economy”, presented by Tim Harford.
She details the history of everything from inflation, to interest and mortgage rates, plus economic growth and GDP.
Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
For the first time this year, the Keynes Lecture was delivered in a hybrid format, allowing both those at home to attend, and a select audience.
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 22 July, 2021
“I am very pleased and grateful to have received the Ellen McArthur prize,” says Natasha May. “I really enjoyed constructing my dissertation and I am very happy that my work has been deemed good enough for an award.”
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 1 July, 2021
The Adam Smith Prize Endowment Fund awards prizes annually for the Part 2B of the Economics Tripos: one for the best overall performance and for the best dissertation submitted. The Adam Smith prize for best overall performance in the Part 2B Tripos was won by Valerie Chuang of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Economics News | Published on Monday, 27 July, 2020
The Ellen McArthur Fund named after the pioneering economic historian Ellen McArthur who endowed it in the first place, is a Cambridge University fund, which exists to promote research and study in Economic History. The Fund awards an annual prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in this cross-disciplinary field.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
Dr. William H. Janeway's article titled "Covid 19 is not World War II" which discusses how the COVID-19 era has little in common with the US mobilization for war in the 1940s has appeared in Project Syndicate.
Keywords: USCOVID-19Economic History
Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 14 April, 2020
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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
The British Academy blog has published an essay by nine Fellows of the Academy on how the humanities and social sciences could shape the 2020s.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 24 January, 2020
The Cabinet Office blog has published an essay by Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie on her 2019 Thought Experiment Lecture at the Treasury. Prof.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 12 November, 2019
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie will give a public lecture on 19 November 2019 on "How Do Bad Institutions Survive? European Guilds, c. 1000 -- c. 1880".
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
In this video, Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie explains what she would like policy makers to take from her research.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 14 October, 2019
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie will give the Thought Experiment Lecture at the Cabinet Office on Friday 18 October.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie will give the opening keynote lecture on 19th September 2019 at the annual conference of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Instit
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 4 September, 2019
To celebrate the centenary of "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" by John Maynard Keynes, the Marshall Library has been publishing a series of blogs about the publication, reception and reaction to Keynes's famous book.
Keywords: EconomyKeynesPost-warEconomic History
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 27 May, 2019
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie gives the keynote lecture to launch the Annual N. W. Posthumus Conference in Ghent on 28 May 2019. The theme of this year's conference is "Institutions and Innovation".
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 27 May, 2019
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie has recorded a podcast on her book, The European Guilds, for Tides of History, an online documentary program dedicated to exploring how history helps us understand
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 7 May, 2019
The Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London has organized a podcast and accompanying event on Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie’s book, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 23 April, 2019
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie will give a Plenary Lecture on "Guilds and Innovation" at the CEPR / Danish Institute for Advanced Study Conference on "Accounting For The Wealth Of Nations: History And Theory". This event is being hosted by the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 25-26 April 2019.
See the link below for the full programme.
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 28 March, 2019
Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 21 March, 2019
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie has made a podcast on her book, The European Guilds, for the New Books Network, an initiative dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors t
Economics News | Published on Sunday, 10 February, 2019
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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 4 January, 2019
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie will deliver a public lecture in Frankfurt at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History on 30 January 2019.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 19 November, 2018
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie gave the Faculty Research Seminar, presenting the research in her 2019 Princeton University Press book, where she uses economic methods to analyze an institution central to almost every economy in history -- the occupational guild.
Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 17 October, 2018
Democratic purges in post-World War II France: Was it all about separating the wheat from the chaff?
Keywords: EUPost-warAwardsEconomic History
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 6 August, 2018
Faculty supervisor and examiner, Charles Read has been awarded a prize by the International Economic History Association (IEHA) for the best dissertation in nineteenth-century economic history
Keywords: AwardsEconomic History
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 4 July, 2018
Prof. Sheilagh Ogilvie's research is featured in the latest University's Research Horizons magazine.
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 4 January, 2018
Jane was an undergraduate in the Faculty of Economics (1967-70), having been awarded a National Coal Board Scholarship to attend Cambridge. After completing a PhD at Cornell, Mass., USA, and being appointed to lecturing positions in the USA, she returned to Cambridge as a lecturer, and subsequently Reader, in the Faculty of Economics from 1980-1998.
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