The critique of “The Economics of Guilds” by Ogilvie
Ogilvie, Sheilagh. “The Economics of Guilds.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 4 (2014): 169–92.
Sources:
1) Use the main article – The economics of guilds (the essay critique is based on the this article that we need to critically analyse)
2) Use other articles (5-6 sources of the below-given ones) attached for the formation of evidence or general arguments (for weakness or strength of article support) – you can choose the ones you find useful:
Epstein, S. R., and Maarten Prak, eds. Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511496738.
De Moor, Tine. “The Silent Revolution: A New Perspective on the Emergence of Commons, Guilds, and Other Forms of Corporate Collective Action in Western Europe.” International Review of Social History 53, no. S16 (2008): 179-212. doi:10.1017/S0020859008003660.
Berezin, P. (2003). Did Medieval Craft Guilds Do More Harm than Good? Journal of European Economic History 32, 171-197.
Gustafson, B. (1991). The Rise and Economic Behaviour of Medieval Craft Guilds. In Power and Economic Institutions: Reinterpretations in Economic History (Ed. Gustafson, B.). Aldershot: Elgar, pp. 69-106.
Epstein, S. R. “Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe.” The Journal of Economic History 58, no. 3 (1998): 684–713.
Charles R Hickson, Earl A Thompson,
A new theory of guilds and european economic development,
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Kieser, Alfred. “Organizational, Institutional, and Societal Evolution: Medieval Craft Guilds and the Genesis of Formal Organizations.” Administrative Science Quarterly 34, no. 4 (1989): 540–64.
Guilds, laws, and markets for manufactured merchandise in late-medieval England in Explorations in Economic History
Article by Gary Richardson 2004-1
Rosser, Gervase. “Crafts, Guilds and the Negotiation of Work in the Medieval Town.” Past & Present, no. 154 (1997): 3–31.
Soly, Hugo. “The Political Economy of European Craft Guilds: Power Relations and Economic Strategies of Merchants and Master Artisans in the Medieval and Early Modern Textile Indistries.” International Review of Social History 53 (2008): 45–71.
{Related question to start with: Were craft guilds good or bad for economic development?}
Consider following in the essay:
What is the author’s main argument?
What larger debate is the author contributing to?
You may want to read some other related papers to get an idea of this (cite them properly!). This is what historians refer to as a historiography section. Economists and social scientists might call this a literature review.
What evidence does the author present in support of their argument?
How convincing is the author’s argument?
Are there any issues or potential problems that you can see?
What are the article’s strengths?
What are the articles weaknesses?
How has the article advanced our understanding of a specific scholarly debate?
Essays should be formatted in proper Chicago Style (footnotes included with page numbers, bibliography included in the end in Chicago style 17th)
pages needed
use only 4 extra sources for the evidence or argument
do not copy past the work , use the ideas and write your own argument
keep it simple
get to the point in the conclusion (do not add new information, conclude what you said throughout the paper)
Use the document ‘ogilvie’ for the readings ( i highlighted the main good and bad stuff for the question given in the red i.e. Were craft guilds good or bad for economic development?
(+) = good for economic development
(-) = bad for economic development)
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OVERALL:
No need to explain Ogilvie’s essay = NEED to show what STRENGTHAND WEAKNESS and SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS or UNSUPPORTING ARGUMENTs
The structure should be :
Introduction
a. Context
b. Literature review (3 sentences, important author’s argument)
c. Road map of approach (how you would structure your body paragraph) (with main explanation of what craft guilds are, Ogilvie’s argument about them and the contribution to larger debate)
Body Paragraphs (3-4 paragraphs)
a. Introduce first strength ( Use historical evidence, it can be both numbers and descriptive events. ) use supporting evidence (other authors)
b. Introduce second strength ( Use historical evidence, it can be both numbers and descriptive events. ) use supporting evidence(other authors)
c. Introduce first weakness ( Use historical evidence, it can be both numbers and descriptive events. ) use supporting evidence(other authors)
d. Introduce second weakness ( Use historical evidence, it can be both numbers and descriptive events. ) use supporting evidence(other authors)
All footnotes need a page number
Conclusion
a. Show that your evidence in the body paragraph proved the argument of author (summarize)
b. How this relates to the larger debate.
