In the study of alimentary changes and of their relationship to taste, wine can be analysed
sociologically as one of the most complex and heterogeneous types of food. Yet despite the …

The twenty‐first century wine industry is a very different one from that which dominated
operations in the 1980s and 1990s. Production, distribution and marketing of wine are now …

In the last years a growing body of geographical research has analyzed the relation
between rural restructuring and commodity chain globalization. In this context, globalization …

Twenty-first century capitalism is marked by a paradox: whilst we continue to see an
internationalization of markets and finance, and also of corresponding laws and regulation …

Is it not ironic that it has taken the work of two French academics, writing almost exclusively
about contemporary changes in France, to engage the interest of Anglophone social …

This article advances the case for the more systematic incorporation of ideational factors into
comparative capitalisms analysis as a corrective to the rational choice proclivities of the …

Over the last decade the neo-institutionalist literature on comparative capitalism has
developed into an influential body of work. In this book, Colin Crouch assesses this …

The Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) has become the dominant approach in comparative
political economy and enjoys wide application and attention in disciplines outside of political …

This chapter draws on the economic sociology literature and considers the effects of political
consumer activism on market structures and practices. Its main argument is that activists who …

The economic success of state-led forms of capitalism in Russia, China and some other
autocracies is one of the most challenging developments for existing typologies of …