A major debate neglected by accounting historians is the importance of landlords in the English agricultural revolution. The paper uses accounting evidence from the historical literature to test ...

Fletcher, James, John, and Wesley Harper of Harper & Brothers Publishing in 1863. Since the re-election of President Donald Trump, many prominent American corporations, including Amazon, Meta, and ...

Less than a decade ago, a historian interested in the rise of capitalism would have a difficult time finding a job in a history department. The closest thing scholars wrote about capitalism was called ...

To Thomas Carlyle, it was “one of the shabbiest gospels ever preached”. Adam Smith was an early fan, but was still suspicious of those who practised it. Rosa Luxemburg thought it fuelled imperialism ...