It was a pleasure and honour to give the Thinkers Series Lecture at the Economics Department of Renmin University of China this Monday. Many thanks to my hosts and to a wonderfully engaged audience. The banner deserves some of the credit.‬ @leverhulme.ac.uk‬ @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬ #echist

The University of Oxford is advertising a 2-year Teaching Fellowship in Economic and Social History starting 1 Sep 2026. Applications close 1 Jul 2026. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Congratulations to Yunyufei Luo on his EHS award and blog on “Credit Generation without (External) Contract Enforcement: Property Redemption Rights in Traditional China, 1592 – 1950”. @yunyufeiluo.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬‬ ehs.org.uk/credit-gener...

Credit Generation without (External) Contract Enforcement: Property Redemption Rights in Traditional China, 1592 - 1950 - Economic History Society

In this post Yunyufei Luo (University of Oxford) presents their research, which was supported by the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students. — How did people deal with credit w...

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The University of Oxford is advertising a 1-year Departmental Lectureship in Economic and Social History to be held in the Faculty of History from 1 Oct 2026 to 30 Sep 2027. Applications close 27 May 2026. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL580/d...

Departmental Lectureship in Economic and Social History at University of Oxford

Apply now for the Departmental Lectureship in Economic and Social History role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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The University of Oxford is advertising a Professorship of Economic History, which will be held in the Department of Economics in association with Nuffield College. Closing date 25 May 2026, interviews 26 June. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru....

Looking forward to talking at OCIS next week about the bright and dark side of pandemics and state capacity ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬‬ #echist www.oxcis.ac.uk/events/levia...

Looking forward to talking about epidemics and institutions at the IHR next week ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social @PrincetonUPress #echist

Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEXT MONDAY! Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

How epidemic disease offers new perspectives on economic history—and vice versa. Honoured to blog for @camunicampop.bsky.social about my new book “Controlling Contagion”: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/11... ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬‬ @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @PrincetonUPress

Do the preindustrial roots of gender inequality lie in exogenous forces or also in human institutions? “Dividing the Spoils: Inheritance Institutions and Gender Inequality before Industrialization” @felixschaff.bsky.social @cepr.org ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬ cepr.org/publications...

Wonderful audience and great discussion today at the Italian Economic History Association keynote on “Leviathan’s Health: State Capacity and Pestilence from the Black Death to Covid”. An honour to be invited to this excellent conference! @PrincetonUPress ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬

How did preindustrial work patterns differ between women and men? How do you even measure them? Amazing quantitative data coming out today at the Urbino conference on “Women and Men at Work in Preindustrial Europe” mobilityandhumanities.it/work/

Looking forward talking about “Leviathan's Health: State Capacity and Pestilence from the Black Death to Covid” at the ASE Conference in Venice on 4 Oct, and learning more about the newest work in Italian economic history ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬ @PrincetonUPress‬ t.co/k5DWafQAbw

Looking forward talking about “Controlling Contagion” at the Radboud Conference next week, and learning more answers to its key question: “How Did We Lift the Burden?” www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... @oxford-esh.bsky.social @timriswick.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Keynote “Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from Plague to Covid” | Radboud University

In this keynote lecture, prof. Sheilagh Ogilvie will explain how societies have historically managed epidemics through various social institutions.

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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20556 Transplanting Craft Guilds to Colonial Latin America: A Large Language Model Analysis cepr.org/publications... @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxford-esh.bsky.social #echist‬

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, V:I, Part III, on government, externalities and public goods:

Sheilagh Ogilvie@sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · last yr.

Adam Smith: "it would still deserve the most serious attention of government... to prevent a leprosy, or any other loathsome and offensive disease... from spreading itself... though, perhaps, no other publick good might result from such attention, besides the prevention of so great a publick evil"

Adam Smith: "it would still deserve the most serious attention of government... to prevent a leprosy, or any other loathsome and offensive disease... from spreading itself... though, perhaps, no other publick good might result from such attention, besides the prevention of so great a publick evil"

Sheilagh Ogilvie@sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · last yr.

Wonderful hosts and amazing audience in Edinburgh yesterday for for Adam Smith Lecture on “Market, State, and Contagion from the Black Death to Covid”. @AdamSmithHouse @PrincetonUPress @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Wonderful hosts and amazing audience in Edinburgh yesterday for for Adam Smith Lecture on “Market, State, and Contagion from the Black Death to Covid”. @AdamSmithHouse @PrincetonUPress @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @arthurlewislab.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #echist

Trade privileges didn't exactly benefit the special-interest groups, either. @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @PrincetonUPress #echist press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Sheilagh Ogilvie@sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · last yr.

What does history tell us about trade barriers to favour domestic interest-groups? On guilds and trade in medieval Europe, check out this BBC series, broadcast again this week. @BBCRadio4 @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

What does history tell us about trade barriers to favour domestic interest-groups? On guilds and trade in medieval Europe, check out this BBC series, broadcast again this week. @BBCRadio4 @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Has the black box of "state capacity" ever frustrated you? These guys are prying it open ...

Nuno Palma@nunopgpalma.bsky.social · last yr.

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 New paper by K. Karaman, A. Henriques, & myself. Contrary to conventional wisdom we find that constrained government & state capacity were not systematically related. England stood out for combining both which helps explain its take-off

Had fun podcasting with Tyler Cowen on “Controlling Contagion”, guilds, and the persistence of bad institutions @PrincetonUPress @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/she...

Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions (Ep. 237)

What 700 years of pandemic responses reveal about institutional effectiveness

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Wonderful audience today for “Controlling Contagion” at the Oxford Literary Festival @PrincetonUPress @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Dr Emily Vincent@dremilyvincent.bsky.social · last yr.

A great talk this morning from @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social as part of the Oxford Literary Festival on her new book ‘Controlling Contagion’ in which she examines economic and institutional responses to pandemics across the last 700 years 🦠 😷

Follow the 1525 German Peasants' War day by day: @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social #earlymodern #skystorians

Sheilagh Ogilvie@sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · last yr.

Do revolutions break out when peasants are poor? Or when they realize they shouldn’t be? And what role does God play? Still trying to puzzle this out, 5 centuries after the Peasants’ War (podcast in German): open.spotify.com/episode/0ZVe...

Do revolutions break out when peasants are poor? Or when they realize they shouldn’t be? And what role does God play? Still trying to puzzle this out, 5 centuries after the Peasants’ War (podcast in German): open.spotify.com/episode/0ZVe...

Der Freiheitskampf der Bauern - Bauernkrieg 1525

Terra X History - Der Podcast · Episode

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How can we raise the Human Development Index? Life expectancy at birth = 1/3 of the HDI. Infant and maternal deaths started to fall around 1650 – but why? Alice Reid's analysis of a complex, 300-year story. @amrcampop.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...

Sewer access shapes developing world cities. New research shows effects on population density as large as for highways, but little on demographics, from Sean E. McCulloch, Matthew P. Schaelling, Matthew Turner, and Toru Kitagawa https://www.nber.org/papers/w33597

Campop blog #42: The quality of care during birth has always affected outcomes for both mothers and infants. But the introduction of midwivery training in 1902 did seem to have an impact - today's blog explains why @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...

We are also inviting applications for a 2-year full-time Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History at @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Applications should be submitted online and before noon Wednesday 23 April - details below! #econhist #history www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/depart...

Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications 23 April 2025. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...