Guilds

2012 forthcoming. ‘What Lessons for Economic Development Can  We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?’. Explorations in Economic History [with J. S. S. Edwards].

2011. ‘Krämer und ihre Waren im ländlichen Württemberg zwischen 1600 und 1740’, Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 59:2, 54-75 (with M. Küpker and J. Maegraith).

2011. Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
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2010. ‘Consumption, Social Capital, and the “Industrious Revolution” in Early Modern Germany’, Journal of Economic History 70(2): 287-325.
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2008. ‘Rehabilitating the Guilds: a Reply’, Economic History Review, 61:1, 175-182.
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2008. ‘Verheiratete Frauen und Märkte im Württemberg der Frühen Neuzeit’, in R Johanna Regnath & Christine Rudolph (eds.), Frauen und Geld. Wider die ökonomische Unsichtbarkeit von Frauen (Königstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag), 43-86.

 2007. ‘ “Whatever Is, Is Right”? Economic Institutions in Pre-Industrial Europe’ [Tawney Lecture], Economic History Review, 60.
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2007. ‘Can We Rehabilitate the Guilds? A Sceptical Re-Appraisal’, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, 0745.
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2006. ‘ “Eine sauere Nahrung”. Frauen, Märkte, und soziales Kapital im frühmodernen Deutschland’ [Kucznyski Lecture], Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte, 24, 13-36.

2005. ‘The Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early Modern Guilds’, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2005:1, 15-52.


2004. ‘Guilds, Efficiency and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry’, Economic History Review, 57, 286-333.    
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2004. ‘How Does Social Capital Affect Women? Guilds and Communities in Early Modern Germany’, American Historical Review, 109, 325-359.    Direct link to article

2004. ‘Women and Labour Markets in Early Modern Germany’, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2004:2, 25-60.

2003. ‘Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds’, CESifo Working Papers, 1037 (with Roberta Dessi). [This version is 35 pages.] 
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2004. ‘Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds (Long Version)’, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, 0417 (with Roberta Dessi). [This version is 76 pages; it includes more empirical examples, a fuller discussion, and precise page references to a more copious secondary literature.]
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2003. A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany  (Oxford).  UK/Europe  USA/Canada Sample
     Winner of the RENE KUCZYNSKI PRIZE 2004

2002. ‘Guilds, Efficiency, and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry’, CESifo Working Papers, 820.
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2000. ‘The European Economy in the Eighteenth Century’, in T. W. C. Blanning (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe, Vol. XII: The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815 (Oxford), 91-130.
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2000. 'Social Capital, Social Networks, and History' (University of Cambridge, mimeo).
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1997. State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest 1590-1797  (Cambridge).       Publisher's link - click here
          Winner of the GYORGY RANKI PRIZE 1999

1997. ‘Soziale Institutionen, Korporatismus und Protoindustrie: die Württembergische Zeugmacherei, 1580-1797’, in D. Ebeling & W. Mager (eds.), Protoindustrie in der Region. Europäischen Gewerbelandschaften vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert (Bielefeld), 105-138.
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1996. ‘Social Institutions and Proto-industrialization’, in S. C. Ogilvie & M. Cerman (eds.), European Proto-industrialization (Cambridge), 23-37.
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1995. 'Were Merchant Guilds Really Beneficial? A Comment on Greif, Milgrom, and Weingast' (University of Cambridge, mimeo).
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1995. ‘Institutions and Economic Development in Early Modern Central Europe: Proto-industrialization in Württemberg, 1580-1797’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth Series, Vol. 5, 221-250.
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1995. ‘Population Growth and State Policy in Central Europe before Industrialization’, Centre for History and Economics Working Papers (Jun. 1995).
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1986. ‘Coming of Age in a Corporate Society: Capitalism, Pietism, and Family Authority in Rural Württemberg, 1590-1740’, Continuity and Change, 1, 279-331.