The article seeks to explore the inter-play of scientific developments and their social inferences. Many times it happens that a particular scientific development is either not received well by the society, or else it causes a division amongst experts on the issue of its adoption for the...

The paper develops a composite index of GMO standards restrictiveness for 60 countries, assigning objective scores to six different regulatory dimensions. Using this index and its components, we empirically investigate the political and economic determinants of GMO regulations. Results show that...