Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2025-04-02
Books mentioned on Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions
Sheilagh Ogilvie has spent decades examining the institutional structures that shaped European economic history, challenging conventional wisdom about everything from guilds to marriage patterns.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Controlling Contagion
Controlling Contagion by Sheilagh Ogilvie is an academic exploration of epidemics and institutional responses from the era of the Black Death through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recommended“Before my last question let me just plug your new book again. It's called Controlling Contagion Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to COVID and I believe it is the very best book on those topics.”
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Own book Controlling Contagion
“She has a new book out, which is excellent, and the title is Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to COVID.”
Own book Controlling Contagion
“So, I have a table in the book where I try to put together probably 15 or 16 quantitative examples that we have from, you know, shortly after the Black Death straight through to the present day.”
Own book Controlling Contagion
“I think maybe the first thing I would say is don't believe what your priest says because um because one of the things I mean, one of the things I do in the book is I try to affect I try to assess the effect of different social institutions.”