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To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.003 Byline: Harry Collins (a), Robert Evans (a), Mike Gorman (b) Keywords: Trading zones; Interactional expertise; Interdisciplinarity; Creole Abstract: The phrase 'trading zone' is often used to denote any kind of interdisciplinary partnership in which two or more perspectives are combined and a new, shared language develops. In this paper we distinguish between different types of trading zone by asking whether the collaboration is co-operative or coerced and whether the end-state is a heterogeneous or homogeneous culture. In so doing, we find that the voluntary development of a new language community -- what we call an inter-language trading zone -- represents only one of four possible configurations. In developing this argument we show how different modes of collaboration result in different kinds of trading zone, how different kinds of trading zone may be 'nested' inside each other and discuss how a single collaboration might move between different kinds of trading zone over time. One implication of our analysis is that interactional expertise is a central component of at least one class of trading zone. Author Affiliation: (a) Centre for the Study of Knowledge Expertise and Science (KES), Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff CF10 3WT, UK (b) Department of Department of Science, Technology, & Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4746, USA

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.011 Byline: Robert Evans Keywords: Expertise; Economic forecasting; Periodic table of expertise; Judgement Abstract: The outputs of economic forecasting -- predictions for national economic indicators such as GDP, unemployment rates and inflation -- are all highly visible. The production of these forecasts is a much more private affair, however, typically being thought of as the work of individual forecasters or forecast teams using their economic model to produce a forecast that is then made public. This conception over-emphasises the individual and the technical whilst silencing the broader social context through which economic forecasters develop the expertise that is essential for the credibility of their predictions. In particular, economic forecasts are given meaning and fine-tuned through the social and institutional networks that give forecasters access to the expertise of a heterogeneous mix of academics, policy-makers and business people. Within these broader groups, individual forecasters often create private forecast 'clubs', where subscribers have privileged access to the expertise of the economist, but where the forecasters also have privileged access to their clients' own expert knowledge. In examining these aspects of the forecasters' work I show that the visible and audible activities of modelling and forecasting are made possible and plausible by virtue of the modeller's invisible interaction with a wider network. Author Affiliation: Centre for the study of Knowledge Expertise Science (KES), School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, The Glamorgan Bldg, Cardiff CF10 3WT, UK

'The Choise of Valentines,' an erotic poem by English Renaissance poet Thomas Nashe, exhibits many parallels of language and setting with Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale.' The two works open in similar fashion using similar phrases, for example. Other critics have made comparable connections between Nashe's poem and additional works by Chaucer. Nashe's apparent allusions to Chaucer suggest that the purpose of his poem transcended mere titillation. Nashe may have consciously intended to echo the comical Chaucerian irony he evidently admired., Although Thomas Nashe's poem 'The Cholse of Valentines' is often considered the most pornographic work to survive from a major author of the English Renaissance, the nature and Intent of [...]

T. F. Wharton, ed. The Drama of John Marston: Critical Re-Visions. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. Xiii,233. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-65136-0. This collection is a very welcome addition to [...]

ON 6 November the latest round of talks between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders ended on a familiar note of disagreement. Set up under the auspices of the United [...]

Anne Locke. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Anne Locke's Sonnet Sequence with Locke's Epistle. Edited and with an Introduction by Kel Morin-Parsons. Waterloo, Ontario: North Waterloo Academic Press, 1997. [...]

Anita Pacheco, ed. Early Women Writers: 1600-1720. Longman Critical Readers Series. London: Longman, 1998. x+282pp. ISBN 0 582 30462 8 Cloth: 0 582 30463 6 Paper. Robert C. Evans Auburn [...]