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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

The Growth of the State

2013 forthcoming. ‘Institutions and Growth in Historical Perspective’, in Philippe Aghion & Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth (Amsterdam: Elsevier) [with A. W. Carus].

2012 forthcoming. ‘Married Women and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany’, in C. Beattie & M. Stevens (eds.), Married Women and the Law in Northern Europe c.1200-1800 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer).

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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2006. ‘“So That Every Subject Knows How To Behave”: Social Disciplining in Early Modern Bohemia’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 48(1): 38-78.

Winner of the Stanley Z. Pech Prize 2008
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2005. ‘Staat und Untertan in der lokalen Gesellschaft am Beispiel der Herrschaft Frýdlant (Böhmen)’, in Markus Cerman & Robert Luft (eds.), Untertanen, Herrschaft und Staat in Böhmen und im ‘Alten Reich’ (Munich).

2003. ‘Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds’, CESifo Working Papers, 1037. [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 No. 417 (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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1999. ‘The German State: A Non-Prussian View’, in E. Hellmuth & J. Brewer (eds.), Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany (Oxford), 167-202.
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1997. State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest 1590-1797 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
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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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1992. ‘Germany and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis’, Historical Journal 35: 417-41.
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