General Information

Author/Creator

Agar, Jon.

Language

English.

Published

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.

Physical Description

viii, 554 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

History of computing

Subjects

Subject

Computers > Government policy > Great Britain > History.

Public administration > Great Britain > Data processing > History.

Civil service > Effect of technological innovations on > Great Britain > History.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Jon Agar.

Content

Introduction: The State of Knowledge -- 1. The Machineries of Government -- 2. "The Parent of a Totally Different Order of Things": Charles Trevelyan and the Civil Service as Machine -- 3. "Chaotic England" and the Organized World: Official Statistics and Expert Statisticians -- 4. "One Universal Register": Fantasies and Realities of Total Knowledge -- 5. The Office Machinery of Government -- 6. An Information War -- 7. The Military Machine? -- 8. Treasury Organization and Methods and the Computerization of Government Work -- 9. Privacy and Distrust -- 10. Computers and Experts in the Hollowed-Out State, 1970-2000 -- Conclusions and International Perspectives.

ISBN

0262012022

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	004/.0941 AGA		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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