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Karthik Ramanna - Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy - 9780226210742 - V9780226210742
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Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

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Description for Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 296 x 152 x 28. .
Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the detriment of the economy at large. These changes have been driven by the private agendas of certain corporate special interests, aided selectively-and sometimes unwittingly-by arguments from business academia With Political Standards, Karthik Ramanna develops the notion of thin political markets to describe a key problem facing technical rulemaking in corporate accounting and beyond. When standard-setting boards attempt to regulate the accounting ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226210742
SKU
V9780226210742
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About Karthik Ramanna
Karthik Ramanna is associate professor of business administration at Harvard University.

Reviews for Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy
Political Standards is a timely and important addition to the literature on standard-setting and how a few self-interested specialists, with little opposition, are able to 'capture' the process and weaken the foundation of free-market capitalism. Ramanna's command of
and passion for
accounting standards brings this otherwise sterile topic to life through a series of teachable stories and concludes with a clarion ... Read more

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