This essay examines the relationship between Austrian economics and economic history. It notes their different origins as scholarly fields, and divergent trajectories over the course of the twentieth century, before discussing recent examples of cross-fertilization and pointing to areas of...

Ogilvie's The European Guilds is a major contribution to economic history and institutional economics. This review essay surveys the main contributions of Guilds, locating it in a long-standing debate over whether craft guilds contributed positively or negatively to economic development in...

This paper develops an analytic narrative examining an institution known as "The Exchequer of the Jewry". The prohibition on usury resulted in most moneylending activities being concentrated within the Jewish community. The king set up the Exchequer of the Jewry in order to extract these...