Acknowledgments -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- The invisible hand -- Marx's theory of value and accounting -- Accounting and the production of capital -- An accounting critique of marxist economics -- Marx's accounting solution to the "transformation problem" -- Fixed...

American accounting theory -- British accounting and Marx's theory of capitalism -- Irving Fisher's theory of accounting -- Accounting theory and the profession -- Charles Ezra Sprague -- Henry Rand Hatfield -- William Andrew Paton Jr. -- John Bennet Canning -- The "big mess."

"Historians have not convincingly explained modern capitalism's two major economic crises, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009. Accounting for Crises offers a new explanation, why both began and were more severe in the USA ("America"), based on...

The missing link -- Marx's theory of history -- An accounting critique of Marxist interpretations -- Ancient slavery -- Slavery in the late roman empire -- Transition to feudalism in Western Europe -- Capitalist ideology and accounting -- The socialist mode of production -- The tasks of critical...