This article outlines the lives and background of the main writers who were active in the 18th century period of ’scottish Ascendancy’ in accounting texts. The impressive publications produced by this group are detailed and the question of why...
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978; Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986; Literary prizes -- United States; Encyclopaedia Britannica;
Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, one of the most outstanding intellectual figures of our time, died in October at the age of eighty-six. His vast erudition, accompanied with astonishing industry and magnificent style, made him a prolific writer on...