'Alas poor Hicks', indeed! Sixty years of use and abuse: commentary on Bromwich et al

Title: 'Alas poor Hicks', indeed! Sixty years of use and abuse: commentary on Bromwich et al
Creator: Clarke, Frank L.
Relation: Abacus Vol. 46, Issue 3, p. 377-386
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6281.2010.00323.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: Alas indeed! We might well wonder whether Professor Ray Chambers would have had the same reservations about using ‘Alas poor Hicks’ to describe what he perceived to be the ‘carelessness and indifference . . . [of] . . . so many . . . who clutched [so] indiscriminately at [Hicks' notion of income]’ had he experienced the matters which Bromwich et al. explain in their ‘Hicksian Income . . .’ in this issue. In a recently discovered 1976 letter to Sir John Hicks (reproduced as an appendix to this comment—and to which there is no evidence in the Chambers Archive of any reply by Hicks) Ray Chambers commented on accountants' cavalier treatment of Hicks on Income, treatment similar to that by the IASB and FASB of which Bromwich et al. now rightly complain.
Subject: accounting; Hicksian Income; continuously contemporary accounting; finance
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/926572
Identifier: uon:9875
Identifier: ISSN:0001-3072
Language: eng
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