Acknowledgments -- List of tables -- List of figures and exhibits -- Introduction -- Controversies over corporate accountability -- Love Canal -- Slater Walker Company -- Accounting for multinationals: the Sierra Leone Development Corporation -- Ponzi schemes and California pyramids -- National Student Marketing Corporation -- The role of accounting in public utility pricing -- Preconditions for accounting and other value rationales -- Value theory and accounting -- The emergence of specialization and exchange: preconditions for value theory and accounting -- Theories of value -- Antecedents to theories of social value -- Accumulationist and distributionist theories of social value -- Marx's value theory -- Marginalist theory of private value -- Expropriation by unequal exchange: the new accounting problematic -- Marginalism versus alienationist value theory -- Elements of radical systems of accounting -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.