Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize, awarded by the Section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work, of the American Sociological Association, for the best book on …

While many studies have suggested the beer value chain might be a vehicle for economic
growth, few have estimated the economic impacts of craft beer to a geographic region. As …

Global consumption patterns for alcoholic beverages are evolving, with some convergence
in per capita consumption among nations as traditionally beer-drinking nations increase …

In terms of absolute alcohol consumption and total quantity consumed, beer is the most
consumed alcoholic beverage in Hungary. The Hungarian beer industry is highly …

We study how regulatory changes influence the market dynamics underlying business
location decisions by investigating how a 2019 law introducing full-strength beer into …

This paper argues that the different symbolic meanings of goods give rise to three
institutionally different market types. We start from the realization that consumption has …

Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us takes readers on a lively journey
through the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the modern beer world. This book …

The evolution of the craft beer sector has been gaining traction around the world since the
1980s, developing from factors such as an increased demand for alternative and locally …

Using newly released public data on beer prices in the state of California, we construct a
large dataset (approximately 2 million observations) that includes beer prices and …

Traditional firm location theory (Weber, Moses, Hotelling, etc) explains firm location
decisions in terms of factor prices, relative transport costs of inputs and outputs, and strategic …