The paper argues that most (Anglo‐Saxon) historiography of technology, including recent
sociologically‐oriented work, is concerned with innovation rather than technology, and that …

Our brief in this symposium is to look at" both the continuing sign of some long-lived
patterns in the scholarship of this field, and the tance of newer emergent trends and themes," …

‘The linear model’has become a term of art in studies of science policy and innovation, and
in some historical studies of science and technology. 2 It is, like ‘technological determinism’…

A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the
British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which …

From the books of HG Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clichéd claims
about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, …

The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking
on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a …

This paper develops a very simple test for the null hypothesis of no cointegration in panel
data. The test is general enough to allow for heteroskedastic and serially correlated errors, unit…

This paper proposes a bootstrap test for the null hypothesis of cointegration in panel data.
The test is general enough to allow for dependence both within and between the cross …

The place of science and technology in the British economy and society is widely seen as
critical to our understanding of the British'decline'. There is a long tradition of characterising …

The necessary conditions for multistage budgeting to be at least approximately justified are
reviewed, and the plausibility of these assumptions (ie, weak separability and low variability …