Accounting's Changing Role in Social Conflict Book

	Preface and Acknowledgments
I	Introduction	1
	Global Debt to Pay	3
	Bank Accounting Practices	4
	Costs of the International Debt Crises	7
	Boom and Bust of Mergers	8
II	The Roles of Accounting in Society	17
	The Stewardship Role	18
	The New Stewardship Role: The Efficient Allocation of Resources	20
	The Efficient Allocation of Resources: General Characteristics, Limitations, and Challenges	22
	Assumptions of Neo-Classical Economics and Their Impact on Accounting	23
	Summary and Challenges	35
III	Truth or Consequences: The Social Production of Knowledge	39
	Epistemological Stance: Falsificationism	40
	The Process of Growth in Knowledge: Kuhn	43
	Knowledge Production: Socio-Historical Approaches Beyond Kuhn	44
	Feminist Challenges to Science and Techniques of Knowledge	47
	Epistemology in Accounting	49
	Critical Theory: An Approach to Research	53
IV	Social Conflict, the State, and the Role of Accounting Literature	59
	The Structures of Societies	60
	Developments of Economic Strains and Impediments	65
	The Roles of the State and Accounting	68
	Managing Conflict and Ideology	77
	A Semiotic Analysis of Accounting Literature	79
V	The Discursive Realm of Business and Accounting	85
	The Choice of the Journals	85
	Accounting Journals	86
	General Information on Classifying the Journal Texts	87
	A Periodization Analysis	91
	Discursive Activity of Fortune	94
	Discursive Activity of the Accounting Journals	113
	Marginalized Accounting Discourses and Accounting's Social Role	139
VI	Signs and Symbols: Rediscovering Accounting's Partisanship	145
	Crafting Accounting	148
	Bibliography	153