The Coffee Commodity Chain in the World-Economy: Arrighi's Systemic Cycles and Braudel's Layers of Analysis

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  • John M. Talbot University of the West Indies, Mona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2011.427

Abstract

This article presents a history of coffee in the modern world-economy, w;ing an analyticalframework synthesized from Arrighi's concept of systemic cycles of accumulation and Braudel'snotion of three levels of economic analysis: material life, the market economy, and capitalism. Ittakes the commodity chain as the unit of analysis, and argues that this choice helps to illuminatethe caw;al connections between Braudel 's three layers. The method of incorporated comparisonis w;ed to compare restructurings of the coffee commodity chain with the restructurings of thelarger world-economy during each of Arrighi 's systemic cycles.

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Published

2011-02-26

How to Cite

Talbot, J. M. . (2011). The Coffee Commodity Chain in the World-Economy: Arrighi’s Systemic Cycles and Braudel’s Layers of Analysis. Journal of World-Systems Research, 17(1), 58–88. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2011.427

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The World-Historical Imagination: Giovanni Arrighi's The Long Twentieth Century in Prospect and Retrospect