Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie spoke to BBC Radio 4 about "Consumer protectors or greedy monopolists? A fresh look at what guilds really did for pre-modern trade".
Dr Felix Martin (Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies) will give a on "Money:the unauthorised biography" at Seminar Room, No. 1, Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, on March 13th 2017, from 17:00-18:30pm.
Professorships awarded this year. Funded by the Wolfson Foundation, these awards finance replacement teaching and research expenses, freeing a senior scholar to pursue a three-year research programme in the humanities or social sciences.
Sheilagh Ogilvie on "What a 16th-Century Guild Teaches Us About Competition". Listen to the NPR podcast.
Iain Macpherson, who has died aged 86, was an economic historian, a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The Telegraph have written an obituary of his life.