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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

Selected Publications

  • NEW ARTICLE:  ‘What Lessons for Economic Development Can  We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?’, Explorations in Economic History, (2012 online early) [with Jeremy Edwards].
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  • NEW ARTICLE:  ‘Household Debt in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories’, Journal of Economic History, 72:1 (2012): 134-167 [with Markus Küpker and Janine Maegraith].
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  • NEW ARTICLE:   ‘Contract Enforcement, Institutions, and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Re-Appraised’, Economic History Review, (2011 online early) [with Jeremy Edwards].
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  • Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800  (Cambridge, 2011).                 Paperback   Hardback
  • So That Every Subject Knows How To Behave: Social Disciplining in Early Modern Bohemia’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 48:1 (2006), 38-78. Link to article
  • Whatever Is, Is Right? Economic Institutions in Pre-Industrial Europe’[Tawney Lecture]Economic History Review, 60:4 (2007), 649-684.
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  • ‘Serfdom and Social Capital in Bohemia and Russia’, Economic History Review, 60:3 (2007), 513-544 [with T. K. Dennison].
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  • ‘Communities and the Second Serfdom in Early Modern Bohemia’, Past & Present, 187 (2005), 69-119.  Link to article
  • ‘How Does Social Capital Affect Women? Guilds and Communities in Early Modern Germany’, American Historical Review, 109 (2004), 325-359. Link to article
  • ‘Guilds, Efficiency and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry’, Economic History Review, 57:2 (2004), 286-333.
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  • Germany: A New Social and Economic History, Vol. 3: Since 1800 (London, 2003).    Leaflet  |  Paperback  |  Hardback