The Journal of Accounting and Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the fields of accounting and economics. The editors-in-chief are R. L. Watts]] (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), J. L. Zimmerman (University of Rochester), R. W. Holthausen (University of Pennsylvania), S. P. Kothari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), J. Core (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M. Hanlon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and W. R. Guay (University of Pennsylvania).
Famous quotes containing the words journal, accounting and/or economics:
“What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman’s question: “Who am I?”, but the comic question, the Bewildered Man’s question: “Am I?” A comic—a comedian, that’s what the Journal keeper is.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)