1. Capitalism in crisis -- 2. Accountancy : capitalism's handmaiden -- 3. The deplorable state of accountancy practice -- 4. The reform of capitalism : the stakeholder theory of the firm -- 5. The reform of accountancy : stakeholder reporting -- 6. Sustainability reporting : the GRI's initiative...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Learning From Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Action: Overcoming Barriers in Affordable-Housing Collaborations -- chapter 3 The ABCDS (Autonomy, Boundary Spanning, Common Vision, and Design Attitude) of Successful Collaboration -- chapter 4 Mutually...

Writing American consumption history -- Consumer culture theory in historical perspective -- Colonial consumption from 1607 to 1790 -- Consumption in a new nation, 1790 to 1865 -- The gilded age, 1865 to 1900 -- Consumption progress, 1900 to 1930 -- The great depression and World War II --...

In International Taxation of Trust Income, Mark Brabazon establishes the study of international taxation of trust income as a globally coherent subject. Covering the international tax settings of Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the US, and their taxation of grantors/settlors, beneficiaries,...

The United States introduced the earned income tax credit (EITC) in 1975, where it remains the most significant earnings-based refundable credit in the Internal Revenue Code. While the United States was the first country to use its domestic revenue system to deliver and administer social welfare...

This book opens with a simple introduction to financial markets, attempting to understand the action and the players of Wall Street by comparing them to the action and the players of main street. Firstly, it explores the definition of a security by its function, the departure from the buyer...

The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith invites readers to join in conversations with presidents and first ladies, diplomats and schoolchildren, the McCarthy 'loyalty board', foreign heads of state and fellow economists, and a host of other correspondents. In his long and cosmopolitan...