Social Comptabilism

Social Comptabilism - The Cheque and Clearing Service in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank. Proposed Law laid before the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium

Would it be possible, in a society constituted as ours is, to replace the agency of money by another agency which would have its advantages without its inconveniences, and which could be considered as theoretically perfect,in other words would it be possible to replace the agency of money by a system which would be the final expression of possible improvement in this matter and the definitive point to which social economics ought necessarily to tend? This is the subject which we propose to consider. The paper Social comptabilism and proportionalism[A] which was the starting point of the Institute of Social Sciences of Brussels, was necessarily done in a premature fashion, the subject being regarded from too general a point of view, so as to be harmful to a true explanation of comptabilism properly so called. It laid itself open to criticism and lays itself open still; it does not satisfy all those who wish to go deeply [Pg 2]into the question. On these accounts we deem it our duty, after what the Institute has already published with reference to it, to return again to the subject, limiting ourselves to purely monetary and account-keeping grounds, and an exclusively theoretical explanation of the conception which, connected as it is with the inductive researches of our fellow workers we have submitted to their consideration. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45824
Author: Denis, Hector
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Contributor (Author): Solvay, Ernest, 1838-1922