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Anarchist Accounting - Accounting Principles for a Democratic Economy (Hardcover)
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Anarchist Accounting - Accounting Principles for a Democratic Economy (Hardcover)
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This book is about accounting in an alternative libertarian
socialist economic system. It explores what information and
transactions we need to enable democratic and effective financial
decisions by those affected by the decisions. Based on the economic
model, participatory economics, the author proposes a set of
accounting principles for an economy comprised of common ownership
of productive resources, worker and consumer councils, and
democratic planning, promoting the model’s core values. The
author tackles questions such as how accounting could be organised
in an economy with no private equity owners or private lenders and
creditors that is not based on greed and competition but instead on
cooperation and solidarity. A large part of the book is focused on
issues regarding investments; thus, he asks how and on what basis
decisions are made about the allocation of an economy’s
production between consumption today and investments that enable
more consumption in the future, and how investments are accounted
for. He also considers how investments in capital assets and
production facilities would be decided, financed, and valued if
they are not owned by private capital owners and if allocation does
not take place through markets but through a form of democratic
planning. In answering these questions and more, the author
demonstrates that alternative economic systems are indeed possible,
and not merely lofty utopias that cannot be put into practice, and
inspires further discussion about economic vision. By applying
accounting to a new economic setting and offering both technical
information and the author’s bold vision, this book is a
comprehensive and valuable supplementary text for courses touching
on critical accounting theory. It will also appeal to readers
interested in alternative kinds of economies.
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