ABOUT THE SPEAKER
The Adam Smith Lecture Series sits at the heart of the Panmure House programme of activities. These exclusive events bring world-leading economic thinkers, practitioners, and Nobel Laureates back to the birthplace of modern economics, the house in which Adam Smith completed the final edition of The Wealth of Nations.
We are delighted to announce that our next Adam Smith Lecture will be delivered by Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie, Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford. Sheilagh explores the lives of ordinary people in the past and tries to explain how poor economies get richer and improve human well-being.
Sheilagh is a Fellow of the British Academy and winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize (2021, 1999), the Stanley Z. Pech Prize (2008), the Anton Gindeley Prize (2004), and the René Kuczynski Prize (2004). She has published on institutions and economic development, guilds, merchants, communities, serfdom, human capital, demography, finance, state capacity, and social capital. She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to research European serfdom.
Sheilagh will present insights from her latest book, Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. Adam Smith recognized a role for both governments and markets in dealing with contagious disease, and Sheilagh’s lecture will explore how market, state, and civil society have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics across the past seven centuries.
There will be an opportunity to ask questions immediately post-talk in the Lecture Room, followed by a canapé and drinks reception in the Interpretation Suite.
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Please note this event is invite only but there is a chance to enter a public ballot for a chance to secure places below.
