Guilds, Efficiency, and Social Capital - Evidence from German Proto-Industry

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The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, unknown): “Yet there is no immediate contradiction between such a role and their conservative stand on technological progress: there are clear examples of guilds restraining the diffusion of inventions (see, for example, Ogilvie, 2004).”
Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective (2014, background): “The many empirical studies of women’s economic position in pre-modern Europe suggest that women had a good economic position in some societies with the EMP and a bad one in others.”
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy (2016, background): “One is the debate over whether craft guilds were on balance a hindrance to technological progress, or whether they stimulated it by supporting apprenticeship relations (for a recent summary, see van Zanden and Prak 2013b and Ogilvie 2004).”
On the Empirics of Social Capital (2002, unknown): “Ogilvie (2002, 2004) does precisely this in her historical investigations of the role of social capital in early modern Germany for understanding questions concerning both economic development and the status of women respectively.”