Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- DEBIT AND CREDIT -- DEBIT AND CREDIT IN THE FUNDAMENTAL BOOKS -- DEBITS AND CREDITS TESTED BY THE TRIAL BALANCE -- DETERMINING PROFIT AND LOSS FROM THE BOOKS -- CLOSING THE BOOKS -- THE PRINCIPLES OF LABOR-SAVING DEVICES -- BALANCE...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE UTILITY OF BANKS AS A SOURCE OF MEDIA OF PAYMENT -- CHAPTER I. THE FUNCTIONS OF BANKING -- CHAPTER II. EARLY MINOR ARGUMENTS CONCERNING THE MERITS OF BANKS -- CHAPTER III. BANKS INCREASE THE COUNTRY'S CAPITAL -- CHAPTER IV. BANKS...

1 Debating Homo academicus: A maieutic quest for self-reflexivity -- PART ONE: Homo moralis -- 2 When management and organization came to the village of Jante -- 3 Aren’t we all human? - On the illusion of the extraordinary academic -- PART TWO: Homo reflectivus -- 4 Existential explorations...

Politicians rely on political brokers to buy votes throughout much of the developing world. We investigate how social networks facilitate these vote-buying exchanges. Our conceptual framework suggests brokers should be particularly well-placed within the network to learn about non-copartisans’...

This study examines how tax system design and reform affect labor supply. We conduct an online experiment with 522 participants to assess labor responses to tax reforms that introduce or remove a notch, affecting after-tax income at either the lower or upper end of the income distribution. Our...