Inventing Prediction for Regulation

Tools for inventing organizations:

This paper describes a novel theoretical and empirical approach to tasks such as business process redesign and knowledge management. The project involves collecting examples of how different organizations perform similar processes, and organizing these examples in an on-line ìprocess handbook". The handbook is intended to help people: (1) redesign existing organizational processes, (2) invent n...

Inventing science

When I was young, we seemed to have plenty of free time available for activities that the more serious generation of today would regard as puerile, if not infantile. Thus I spent endless hours writing scripts for imaginary series such as the ‘Lives of Great Composers’ or ‘Great Moments in Science’. I remember a scene written for one of the former which depicted Berlioz in a morgue, fondling the...

Inventing and Re-Inventing the Juvenile Delinquent in British History

This article explores the development of historical writing on British youth delinquency over the last two decades, with some reference to broader European and North American influences. The article outlines the early analyses of historical juvenile crime, particularly in relation to the influence of ‘history from below’ approaches, and the history of childhood. It then moves on to consider the...

Re-Inventing Rulemaking

Bob Anthony and Tom McGarity both maki a number of important, perceptive points, and I find myself in substantial agreement with each of them. I have only two principal disagreements with Bob Anthony. First, I believe that a court should not go behind the objective terms of a statement of agency policy to speculate about whether the statement was "really intended" to bind the public. If by its ...

Inventing Molecular Beacons