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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 27 May, 2019

Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie gives the keynote lecture to launch the Annual N. W. Posthumus Conference in Ghent on 28 May 2019. The theme of this year's conference is "Institutions and Innovation".

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 27 May, 2019

Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie has recorded a podcast on her book, The European Guilds, for Tides of History, an online documentary program dedicated to exploring how history helps us understand

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 7 May, 2019

The Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London has organized a podcast and accompanying event on Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie’s book, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 23 April, 2019

Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie will give a Plenary Lecture on "Guilds and Innovation" at the CEPR / Danish Institute for Advanced Study Conference on "Accounting For The Wealth Of Nations: History And Theory". This event is being hosted by the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 25-26 April 2019.

See the link below for the full programme.

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 28 March, 2019

Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 21 March, 2019

Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie has made a podcast on her book, The European Guilds, for the New Books Network, an initiative dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors t

Economics News | Published on Sunday, 10 February, 2019

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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 19 November, 2018

Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie gave the Faculty Research Seminar, presenting the research in her 2019 Princeton University Press book, where she uses economic methods to analyze an institution central to almost every economy in history -- the occupational guild.