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The purpose of this paper1 is to discuss the character of accounting under a regime of ‘feasible socialism’. This involves starting with a very general discussion of such socialism, in order to put in context the succeeding, more specific comments, on the character of firms under such socialism and the role of accounting this might entail.
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Tomlinson, J. (1990). Accounting for Feasible Socialism: Accounting, Industrial Democracy and the Theory of the Firm. In: Cooper, D.J., Hopper, T.M. (eds) Critical Accounts. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09786-9_4
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