Harold Cecil Edey (19132007) and his colleagues David Solomons (19121995) and William T. Baxter (19072006) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) were instrumental in the development of British accounting thought in the mid-1900s. These three influential scholars...

Harold Cecil Edey was instrumental in the development of British accounting thought in the mid-1900s, and his scholarship influenced a generation of students. This edited collection of his unpublished manuscripts sheds light on his contribution to modern accounting thought.

This latest volume of Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought, edited by Martin E. Persson, contains ten manuscripts, seven being previously unpublished, authored by C. Richard Baker during an academic career that spans four decades. Historical Developments in the Accountancy...