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From Plantation Ledgers to Corporate Balance Sheets: How Slavery in the United States Led to the Modern Managerial Accounting System and the Modern US Economy

Open Journal of Business and Management
This paper explores the profound impact of slavery on the development of modern managerial accounting systems and the American economy. Starting in 1619 with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia, slavery rapidly became integral to the ...
Celine Ebert
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Rethinking modernization: legacies of Parsons and Hilbert [PDF]

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Tiryakian, Edward A.
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Diversification of the Tourist Landscape on Ghana’s Atlantic Coast: Forts, Castles and Beach Hotel/Resort Operations in the Tourism Industry [PDF]

, 2011
European settlements, trans-Atlantic trade in commodities and slaves, and colonization are indispensable components of Ghana’s political history, heritage, and tourism industry.
Addo, E.
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The anti-slavery series: perspectives on the past and present [PDF]

, 2015
Ethan Geringer-Sameth is a graduate of the M.Sc. Human Rights programme at L.S.E.
Geringer-Sameth, Ethan
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Can schools of global public health dismantle colonial legacies?

Nature Network Boston, 2020
N. Erondu, D. Peprah, M. Khan
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Politics and Economic Reform in Malaysia [PDF]

Malaysia’s admirable economic growth is often attributed to liberal, open economic policies. Aggregate measures of openness, however, often veil the way coalitional politics drove illiberal government intervention in the economy to correct ethnically ...
Bryan K. Ritchie
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Islam, the Mediterranean and the Rise of Capitalism [PDF]

, 2007
Banaji, Jairus
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Notes on Captain Cook’s gambling habit: Settling accounts of white possession [PDF]

, 2011
This article brings critical race and whiteness theory and gambling studies together with recent academic ‘history experiments’ to engage with a field of academic research surrounding the figure of Captain Cook.
Nicoll, Fiona
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SOLVING THE POVERTY CRISIS IN NIGERIA: AN APPLIED GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH [PDF]

PERHAPS, POVERTY AND PLENTY IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHALLENGE. THIS STUDY THEREFORE PROPOSE AN APPLIED(COMPUTABLE)GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH, THAT IS A RENEW ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY , EMPLOYMENT AND INEQUALITY THAT EARLIER STRATEGIES ...
GODWIN CHUKWUDUM NWAOBI
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Poor rural land property rights as a manifestation of urban bias [PDF]

Though poor agricultural land property rights are typical constraints that many peasants in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have faced since independence, little has been done to explain their persistence.
Shifa, Abdulaziz B.
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