Merchants

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

2012 forthcoming. ‘Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised’, Economic History Review [with J. S. S. Edwards].

2011. Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
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2011. ‘What Lessons for Economic Development Can  We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?’, CESifo Working Papers, 3438 [with J. S. S. Edwards].
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2009. ‘Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised’, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, 0928 [with J. S. S. Edwards]. [This is a considerably revised version of Edwards & Ogilvie (2008) below.]
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2008. ‘Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised’, CESifo Working Papers, 2254 [with J. S. S. Edwards].
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 2007. ‘ “Whatever Is, Is Right”? Economic Institutions in Pre-Industrial Europe’ [Tawney Lecture], Economic History Review, 60.
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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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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, Cambridge University Press).       Publisher's link - click here
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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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