@inbook{13d7f93730d54d9ab9bd5ad66c90b7e9,
title = "Justification: “Propaganda, accounting and finance: An exploration”",
abstract = "After briefly discussing the phenomenon of propaganda per se, the chapter (a) infers its influence in the enduring misrepresentation of Adam Smith (in the light of Smith{\textquoteright}s ideas the algebraic distinction in financial reporting between profit and labor costs is questioned) and shows Smith{\textquoteright}s awareness of the role of propaganda (“clamour and sophistry”); (b) adduces direct evidence of large scale, concerted (and often hidden) propaganda by US business interests. The Anglo-Saxon preoccupation with maximising Shareholder Value and the challenge this poses to more pluralist economic cultures (European and Japanese) is alluded to and linked to the role of (chiefly) US business propaganda.",
author = "Collison, {David J.}",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "18",
doi = "10.4324/9781315188911",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138731646",
series = "Routledge Revivals",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
pages = "54--79",
editor = "Frankfurter, {George M.} and McGoun, {Elton G.}",
booktitle = "From Individualism to the Individual",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1",
}