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On Gray, Malpas, and Brennan's “The role of social accounts: Situating political ideas”

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  • Lehman, Glen

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In this paper we situate the political ideas that emanate from Gray, Malpas and Brennan on the role of social accounts (GBM in this issue). We explore Brennan's and Malpas’ work and commentary on social accounts in view of existent work in social and environmental accounting. We especially focus on the concept of affluenza and understanding of space and the role of accounting and raise questions that remain unanswered by the authors.

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  • Beck, Cornelia & Lehman, Glen, 2014. "On Gray, Malpas, and Brennan's “The role of social accounts: Situating political ideas”," Accounting forum, Elsevier, vol. 38(4), pages 291-295.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:accfor:v:38:y:2014:i:4:p:291-295
    DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2014.07.003
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