Overview
Harold Cecil Edey (1913-2007) and his colleagues David Solomons (1912-1995) and William T. Baxter (1907-2006) 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 influenced a generation of students who came to populate the British accounting profession and academia to the point where, in the early 1970s, half of all full-time accounting professors in the United Kingdom were LSE alumni. Edey's role in these developments, however, remains relatively underappreciated. This edited volume contains 13 of Edey's unpublished manuscripts written during the heyday of the LSE Triumvirate. These manuscripts address issues of accounting education, measurements, and theory, and they are accompanied by editorial comments that put the material in its historical context. The volume also contains an aide-memoire of Edey's professional activities and a complete bibliography of his published work. The material offers new insight into Edey's contribution to the British accounting profession, and developments at the LSE, during a critical period of academic expansion and struggle to address the problem of accounting for rising inflation. The material is of value to anyone interested in the development of accounting thought.
Full Product Details
Author: Martin E. Persson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume: 23
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.457kg
ISBN: 9781789736700
ISBN 10: 1789736706
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 30 September 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The collection contains 13 essays, manuscripts, and speeches written by Harold Cecil Edey (1913-2007) during his tenure at the London School of Economics that have been stored in the British Library but not formally published. Four of the papers address accounting education, particularly the benefits of incorporating economics and computer science into the accounting curriculum, and the remaining nine papers deal with matters of accounting measurements for various items and under different conditions. -- Copyright 2019 * Portland, OR *
Author Information
Martin E. Persson is an Assistant Professor of Accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and a former Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard Business School. His research interests are broadly within the field of accounting history, with a particular interest in the development of accounting thought. He has published numerous articles, books, and cases for which he has received several awards, including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant from the Government of Canada.
