@article{Talbot_2011, title={The Coffee Commodity Chain in the World-Economy: Arrighi’s Systemic Cycles and Braudel’s Layers of Analysis}, volume={17}, url={https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/427}, DOI={10.5195/jwsr.2011.427}, abstractNote={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.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of World-Systems Research}, author={Talbot, John M.}, year={2011}, month={Feb.}, pages={58–88} }