Anarchist Accounting

Author : Anders Sandström
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000244644
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anarchist Accounting written by Anders Sandström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anders Sandstrom
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781326634834
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anarchist Accounting: Accounting Principles for a Participatory Economy written by Anders Sandstrom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would an economic system based on libertarian socialist principles actually work in practice? What kind of information would need to be recorded in order to enable democratic participation, efficient decision-making and equitable outcomes? Using the economic model Participatory Economics as aframework, this book proposes asetof accounting principles for aneconomy comprised of common ownership of productive resources, federations of worker and consumer councils, and democratic planning. Anders Sandstrom is a trained accountant with a degree from UppsalaUniversity. He is a co-founderof Parecon Sverige, aParticipatory Economics advocacygroup in Sweden."

Author : Anders Sandström
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000244725
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anarchist Accounting written by Anders Sandström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accounting for Ourselves written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351698354
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anarchism, Organization and Management written by Martin Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You might think that anarchism and management are opposed, but this book shows how engaging with the long history of anarchist ideas allows us to understand the problems of contemporary organizing much more clearly. Anarchism is a theory of organizing, and in times when global capitalism is in question, we need new ideas more than ever. The reader of this book will learn how anarchist ideas are relevant to today’s management problems. In a series of student-friendly short chapters on contemporary topics, the authors challenge the common sense that has allowed particular forms of organization and market to become globally dominant. Do we always need leaders? Is technological change always a good thing? Are markets the best way to arrange forms of exchange? This challenging book is essential for anyone who wants to understand what is wrong with business school theory and what we might do about it. For students and teachers of management, the standard textbook reproduces the dominant ideas about the way that business should be done. This book turns those ideas on their head, asking awkward questions about authority, technology and markets and demanding that its readers think hard about whether they want to reproduce those ideas too. Students of management, like everyone else, know that the current global system is broken but they don’t know what they can do about it. This unique book uses 200 years of anarchist ideas to give readers a clear guide for building the organizations and businesses of the future and places choice and responsibility at the centre of making a new world for people and the planet.

Author : Cord-Christian Casper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110645874
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Anarchy written by Cord-Christian Casper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Against Anarchy' investigates the function of Anarchism in Early Modernist political fiction. The study explains how political novels from 1886 to 1911 narrate and evaluate the function of Anarchists as embodiments of a radical space beyond politics. The literary prevalence of Anarchists has so far not been connected systematically to its literary and political functions. The study addresses this research gap in detailed analyses of a radical theme in narratives by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and G.K. Chesterton. It shows that each novel presents strategies of demarcation that allow turn-of-the-century Britain to project its cultural anxieties upon an imagined other, the dreaded figure labelled ‘Anarchist’. The political radical is set up as the foil against which comforting self-descriptions can be maintained. Rather than merely reproducing this boundary work, however, the novels also evaluate its function, both for the respective political system and for their own narrative capabilities — and present the consequences incurred by the loss of an anarchist outside. 'Against Anarchy' is a thorough cultural historiography of the politically other and marginal. At the same time, the study demonstrates that close attention to the specific literary image of Anarchism allows for a re-evaluation of political thought beyond its immediate historical moment — a literary political theory in its own right.

Author : Crimethinc
Publisher : 5-Minute Therapy
ISBN 13 : 9781621065746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accounting for Ourselves written by Crimethinc and published by 5-Minute Therapy. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual assault and abuse continue to plague anarchist circles and spaces. In response, we've developed processes to hold each other accountable outside of the state. But why can't we seem to get them right? Our newest feature examines the context in which these community accountability models emerged, analyzes the pitfalls we've encountered in trying to apply them, and proposes new directions for our resistance.

Author : Davide Turcato
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113727140X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Anarchism written by Davide Turcato and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by the principle that someone else's rationality is not an empirical finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that question as it investigates the ideas and action of one of the most prominent and underrated anarchists of all times: the Italian, Errico Malatesta.

Author : Rob Knowles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351553879
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economy from Below written by Rob Knowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists of the nineteenth century developed and articulated a distinct tradition of economic thought. The period of this study begins with the first major writing of the French communitarian anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, in 1840 and ends with the temporary burial of anarchist theorizing at the beginning of the First World War in 1914. However, he tradition of communitarian anarchist economic thought did not end in 1914. The economic thought explored in this book provides a fresh perception of the fragmentation evident in many societies today, especially where there is a substantial "informal economy."

Author : Randall Amster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134026439
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Anarchist Studies written by Randall Amster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the recent rise in interest in anarchist theory and practice attempting to bridge the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist studies in the academia. Bringing together some of the most prominent voices in contemporary anarchism in the academy, it includes pieces written on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future.