The Accounting Historians Journal
December 1995
Volume 22, Number 2

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THE ACCOUNTING HISTORIANS JOURNAL
Semiannual Publication of The Academy of Accounting Historians
Volume 22, Number 2 December 1995

CONTENTS

Main Articles

British Cost Accounting Development: Continuity and Change — John Richard Edwards, Trevor Boyns, Malcolm Anderson
Irving Fisher and the Mechanistic Character of Twentieth Century Accounting Thought — Tom Mouck
The Cely Shipping Accounts: Accountability and the Transition from Oral to Written Records — Keith Hooper
The Role of Accounting in Public Expenditure and Monetary Policy in the First Century AD Roman Empire — David Oldroyd
Edward Wild: Advocate of Simplification and an Organised Profession in Colonial Australia — Gary D. Carnegie, Scott A. Varker

Review of Books and Other Publications

Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice — Ross E. Stewart
Annotated Bibliography of Russian Language Publications on Accounting 1736-1917 — Marc I. LeBow
The Death of Economics — Scot A. Stradley
Economics without Time: A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change — Christopher J. Napier
Policing Accounting Knowledge: The Market for Excuses Affair — Alan J. Richardson
Setting Standards for Financial Reporting: FASB and the Struggle for Control of a Critical Process — Dean Neu and Eric Powrie

Announcement
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