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Sheilagh Ogilvie
Professor of Economic History
Tel: 44-(0) 1223 335222
Email: Sheilagh.Ogilvie@econ.cam.ac.uk
Interests:Economic development and stagnation in Europe between 1500 and 1800; the causes of the growing divergence between different European economies in this period

Social Capital

2012. ‘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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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. ‘Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised’, CESifo Working Papers, 2254 (with J. S. S. Edwards).
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2007. ‘Serfdom and Social Capital in Bohemia and Russia’, Economic History Review, 60:3, 513-544 (with T. K. Dennison).  PDF download  [This is an electronic version of an article published in The Economic History Review: complete citation information for the final version of the paper,  as published in the print edition of The Economic History Review, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ehr or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.]

2006. ‘“Eine sauere Nahrung”. Frauen, Märkte, und soziales Kapital im frühmodernen Deutschland’, Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte, 24, 13-36.

2005. ‘Communities and the “Second Serfdom” in Early Modern Bohemia, Past & Present, 187, 69-119.

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.

          Working-paper version: The Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early Modern Guilds, CESifo Working Papers, 1302.
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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. ‘Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds (Long Version)’, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics No. 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. ‘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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2002. ‘Guilds, Efficiency, and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry’, CESifo Working Papers, 0820.
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2000. 'Social Capital, Social Networks, and History' (University of Cambridge, mimeo, June).
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1997. A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (Oxford, 2003).   UK/Europe  USA/Canada  Sample
     Winner of the RENE KUCZYNSKI PRIZE 2004

1995. 'Were Merchant Guilds Really Beneficial? A Comment on Greif, Milgrom, and Weingast' (University of Cambridge, mimeo, Feb.).
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