Document Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
History" has never enjoyed a peaceful existence. There has been a constant struggle over the primacy of ideas. The tacit agenda of mainstream history is often to elevate version of the victors, and defend the status quo. A few years ago, doctoral students attending an American Accounting Association colloquium were informed by an eminent (tenured) professor that nothing in THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW older than 5 years was worth reading. "Classics" never appear on the usual doctoral curriculum. Aristotle, Plato and Socrates are dead-and-buried. These, and their fellow texts, have been displaced by ‘modern math’ that has erected its own hermeneutically-sealed home-spun standards of ‘relevance’, ‘truth’, ‘validity’ etc. Mainstream market studies routinely report R-Squares, often of minuscule explanatory size, as ‘confirmation’ that their hypothesis has not been rejected (and therefore, by implication) remain ‘true’.
RIS ID
37881
Publication Details
Tinker, T., Sy, A., Okcabol, F. & Mickhail, G. (2011). From Melmott to Madoff History in the (re)making. Proceedings of the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting (pp. 1-23). Denver, CO.: American Accounting Association.