ch. 1. The internal and external failure of accounting -- ch. 2. The inadequacy of traditional accounting -- ch. 3. Feedback failures and the need for a new accounting -- ch. 4. The stakeholder knowledge network -- ch. 5. Accounting for distributed knowledge -- ch. 6. Distributed risk -- ch. 7....

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