for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

This paper examines empirically two distinguishing aspects of the world's wine regions: their degree of specialization …, that together account for all but one-eighth of the world's winegrapes, are included in the analysis. The data refer to … production of different varieties around the world …