This article reviews two approaches to the study of economic restructuring which focus on
commodity-specific dynamics of change. The first is the global commodity chain (GCC) …

Luc Boltanski et Arnaud Esquerre restituent le mouvement historique qui, depuis le dernier
quart du XXe siècle, a profondément modifié la façon dont sont créées les richesses dans …

In dem Beitrag wird die Soziologie der Konventionen als zeitgenössische
Wissenschaftsbewegung vorgestellt. Diese ist Teil der neuen pragmatischen Soziologien in …

The aim of this chapter is to analyze the economic properties and the institutions governing
the start-up and evolution of cultural districts. Cultural districts are a good example of …

This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value
and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has …

This pioneering volume proposes a compelling new theory of how regions have sustained
their economic viability in the era of multinational corporations. Unlike traditional …

At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed
an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The …

This book is about the economic geography of cultural-products industries, and, in particular,
about the ways in which these industries tend to materialize on the landscape in the form of …

Since the early 1980s, social scientists have increas ingly focused upon the significance of
the region to the organization of economic life. This article considers three main lines of …

The aim of this paper is to highlight the main characteristics of what the authors call'the
economy of qualities'. The authors show that qualifying products and positioning goods are …