AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTING.

An Intellectual History of National Accounting

The world never sleeps and economies do not stand still. As the scope, sophistication and complexity of economic transactions increase, new products appear and the institutions engaged in these exchanges themselves change. The nature of economic relationships is continually being transformed, as activities appear more ambiguous and the interpretation of economic statistics grows ever more diffi...

Accounting History and Accounting Progress

A. C. Littleton famously described accounting as “relative and progressive”. However, in recent historical accounting research, there has been increasing hesitation in describing accounting as “progressing”. This is largely because “progress” implies a degree not only of change but also of improvement, and historical accounting researchers, influenced by social science conventions, often regard...

ترجمه و تحقیق کتاب an introduction to the history of mysticism

پایان نامه ی ارائه شده ترجمه ی کتاب «an introduction to the history of mysticism» نوشته ی مارگارت اسمیت که وی پژوهشگر، خاورشناس و محقق برجسته ی تصوف و عرفان می باشد. موضوع اساسی و مهم این کتاب عرفان در ادیان مختلف است. نویسنده در ابتدا این کلمه را ریشه یابی کرده و سپس تعریفی از آن ارائه داده و آن را در ادیان مختلف مورد بحث قرار داده است و در هر فصل کتاب به معرفی عرفای آن دین یا عصر خاصی پرداخته...

Is There an Indian Intellectual History? Introduction to ‘‘Theory and Method in Indian Intellectual History’’

playful and profound in a way unique to him, entitled ‘‘Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?’’ According to the possible emphases, this sentence could express at least four different questions (‘‘Is,’’ present/past; ‘‘an,’’ singular/plural; ‘‘Indian,’’ local/general; ‘‘thinking,’’ familiar/alien), to which Ramanujan supplies at least eight equally reasonable answers. In the end, he seems to have...

Sustainability and National Accounting