Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth
- R. Schurman
- Political Science
- 1 July 2011
The Professional Guinea Pig belongs to a social science growth area investigating the pharmaceutical industry in contemporary health care. This literature is united by a prevailing consensus that…
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
- W. Boyd, W. S. Prudham, R. Schurman
- Economics
- 1 August 2001
Existing literature suggests that food, fiber, and raw material sectors differ from manufacturing in significant ways. However, there is no analytical basis for engaging the particular challenges of…
Fighting “Frankenfoods”: Industry Opportunity Structures and the Efficacy of the Anti-Biotech Movement in Western Europe
- R. Schurman
- Economics
- 1 May 2004
This article analyzes how a new social movement against genetic engineering in agriculture managed to turn a major industry upside down. While the social movements literature has long recognized the…
Nontraditional Agricultural Exports in Latin America
- B. Barham, M. Clark, E. Katz, R. Schurman
- EconomicsLatin American Research Review
- 1992
After a decade of debt crisis and severe economic decline, countries throughout Latin America are seeking radical new treatments for their economic ills. Under pressure from internal political…
Tuna Dreams: Resource Nationalism and the Pacific Islands' Tuna Industry
- R. Schurman
- Economics
- 1998
The 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea was expected by many to lead to a drastic redistribution of income from the world's fisheries. This article explores the extent to which this happened by…
Micro(soft) managing a ‘green revolution’ for Africa: The new donor culture and international agricultural development
- R. Schurman
- EconomicsWorld Development
- 1 December 2018
Targeting Capital: A Cultural Economy Approach to Understanding the Efficacy of Two Anti–Genetic Engineering Movements1
- R. Schurman, W. Munro
- EconomicsAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 July 2009
The study advances the GCC literature by showing how GCCs are cultural as well as economic constructs, and illustrates the importance of economic structures and organization for movement outcomes, but also shows how the economic sphere is culturally constituted.
Closing the “Great Divide”: New Social Theory on Society and Nature
- M. Goldman, R. Schurman
- Sociology
- 2000
Twenty years ago, two environmental sociologists made a bold call for a paradigmatic shift in the discipline of sociology—namely, one that would bring nature into the center of sociological inquiry…
Snails, southern hake and sustainability: Neoliberalism and natural resource exports in Chile
- R. Schurman
- Economics
- 1 November 1996
The hidden mental health network. Treatment of mental illness by nonpsychiatrist physicians.
- R. Schurman, P. Kramer, J. Mitchell
- Medicine, PsychologyArchives of General Psychiatry
- 1985
Physicians treating nonpsychiatrists' mentally ill patients appear to be providing a different product than psychiatrists are, spending less time with patients, but using a wider range of diagnostic and therapeutic services during each office visit.
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