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  • Creating The "Big Mess": A Marxist History Of American Accounting Theory, C.1900-1929

    by Robert Arthur Bryer ...
    Series Book 1 - Frontiers Of Accounting And Financial History
    Creating the 'Big Mess' and its sequel Accounting for Crises use Marx's theory of capitalism to explain why there is no generally accepted theory of financial accounting, and explore the consequences, by studying the history of American accounting theory from c.1900 to 2007. The answer, Creating the 'Big Mess', is first that while late-19th century British accounting principles, founded on the ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

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    A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Money Problem

    Rethinking Financial Regulation

    by Morgan Ricks ...
    An "intriguing plan" addressing shadow banking, regulation, and the continuing quest for financial stability ( Financial Times).Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a "public" or "private" activity—or both? What do we ... Read more

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  • Investment Banking

    Institutions, Politics, and Law

    by Alan D. Morrison, William J. Wilhelm, Jr. ...
    Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment decisions rely upon price-relevant information, it is impossible to establish property rights over ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Financial Services Law and Compliance in Australia

    by Gail Pearson ...
    Up until the global credit crisis in 2008, 'Financial Services' was the fastest growing sector of the Australian economy. This growth has had profound implications for individuals, corporations and government. Following extensive review in the last part of the twentieth century, Australia put in place an overarching system for regulating all financial services, replacing a system that was based on ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

  • Top Incomes Over the Twentieth Century

    A Contrast Between Continental European and English-Speaking Countries

    Edited by A. B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty ...
    Based on a pioneering research programme on the evolution of top incomes, this volume brings together studies from 10 OECD countries. This rapidly growing field of economic research investigates the top segment of the income distribution by using data from income tax records over the past century. As well as describing the source data and methods employed, the authors also discuss the dramatic ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Key Ideas in Tort Law

    by Professor Peter Cane ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Law
    This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader to understand its various social functions and evaluate its effectiveness in performing those functions. The book focuses, in particular, on how tort law can guide people's behaviour, and the political and social environments within which it operates. It also provides the reader with a wealth of detail about the ideas and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Accounting Standards: True or False?

    by R.A. Rayman ...
    Following a spate of high-profile financial scandals (including Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat), the quality of financial information has come under increasing scrutiny. Many of the accounting standards being imposed on the profession by regulators and standard-setting bodies are now attracting criticism from the business community and the accountancy profession itself.In this book, Anthony Rayman ... Read more

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  • Corporate Insolvency Law

    Perspectives and Principles

    by Vanessa Finch, David Milman ...
    This new edition of Corporate Insolvency Law builds on the unique and influential analytical framework established in previous editions - which outlines the values to be served by insolvency law and the need for it to further corporate as well as broader social ends. Examining insolvency law in the fast-evolving commercial world, the third edition covers the host of new laws, policies and ... Read more

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  • Financial Accounting and Equity Markets

    Selected Essays of Philip Brown

    by Philip Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Perspectives in Accounting
    Philip Brown is one of the most admired and respected accounting academics alive today. He was a pioneer in capital markets research in accounting, and his 1968 article, co-authored with Ray Ball, "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers," arguably had a greater impact on the course of accounting research, directly and indirectly, than any other article during the second half of the ... Read more

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  • Fortune Tellers

    The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters

    by Walter A Friedman ...
    A gripping history of the pioneers who sought to use science to predict financial marketsThe period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic ... Read more

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  • The Costs of Education

    by John Vaizey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This is the first book which authoritatively reviews the UK expenditure on education from 1920 – 1955, both by local authorities and private schools. The book takes the main elements of education in turn and discusses them in detail. There are original studies of local authority finance, of teachers’ pay and of the economics of private education. It examines educational spending by social class ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD