Introduction: wine and the politics of economic change -- The analytical challenge of economic change -- Exiting approaches to change in wine and beyond -- Studying structured contingency: institutions, fields and political work -- Shaping and negotiating a deep reform -- Diagnosis and...

Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on a four-year research project encompassing fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, Xabier Itçaina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith examine the causes...