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...

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the Development of Accounting Thought, edited by Martin E. Persson, contains ten manuscripts, seven being previously unpublished, authored by C. Richard Baker during an academic career that spans four decades.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

Growing up: life on the fringe: rebutting groupthink -- Chambers the man -- Historian: past, present, future -- Archivist: classifying, searching for order -- Management educator -- Theoretician: new system of accounting: cocoa -- Practitioner: theoretician-cum-practitioner -- Reformer of...