Wine Globalization: A New Comparative History

In this anthology, editors Kym Anderson and Vicente Pinilla have gathered together some of the world's leading wine economists and economic historians to examine the development of national wine industries before and during the two waves of globalization. The empirically-based chapters analyze developments in all key wine-producing and consuming countries using a common methodology to explain long-term trends and cycles in wine production, consumption, and trade. The authors cover topics such as the role of new technologies, policies, and institutions, as well as exchange rate movements, international market developments, evolutions in grape varieties, and wine quality changes. The final chapter draws on an economic model of global wine markets, to project those markets to 2025 based on various assumptions about population and income growth, real exchange rates, and other factors. All authors of the book contributed to a unique global database of annual data back to the mid-nineteenth century which has been compiled by the book editors.

Kym Anderson is a Professor of Economics and foundation Executive Director of the Wine Economics Research Centre at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He is also Professor of Economics at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is a co-founder and vice-president of the American Association of Wine Economists, and a co-editor of its Journal of Wine Economics. His previously compiled compendium of global wine data (Global Wine Markets, 1961 to 2009: A Statistical Compendium) has been extended to 1860–2015 for this present book.

Vicente Pinilla is Professor of Economic History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is Editor of Historia Agraria and Director of the Center for Depopulation and Rural Development Areas Studies. He belongs to the Editorial Board of the Rural History in Europe Series. He is the author of Peaceful Surrender: The Depopulation of Rural Spain in the Twentieth Century (2011), and is an editor of the books Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe since 1870 (2013), Markets and Agricultural Change in Europe from the 13th to the 20th Century (2009), and Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History (2015).