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Capitalism in crisis -- Accountancy: capitalism's handmaiden -- The deplorable state of accountancy practice -- The reform of capitalism: the stakeholder theory of the firm -- The reform of accountancy: stakeholder reporting -- Sustainability reporting: the GRI's initiative -- Integrated reporting: a disappointing failure -- Conclusions

The wrong paradigm -- Distributive justice -- The firm's responsibility for distributive justice -- The contribution of financial reporting to distributive justice -- The reporting function -- The distribution function -- The information function -- Concluding remarks

"Accounting and Justice" challenges the basic assumptions on which the current practice of financial reporting is based. Looking critically at the philosophical basis of the rules that govern the financial reporting companies throughout the world, Flower uses the stakeholder theory of the firm to show that companies have a responsibility to achieve distributive justice, and the company's accounts could play an important role in fulfilling this responsibility.

Recognized in Switzerland by numerous prizes, Anne-Claire Decorvet's fiction has yet to make its mark abroad. With the exception of her biographical novel, Un lieu sans raison, inspired by the life of Marguerite Sirvins, it is set predominantly in and around Geneva, explores family and social instability, insanity and psychiatric care in the twentieth century. This article explores some of the distinctive and characteristic features of her writing with a view towards introducing her work to new readers.

This introductory article offers a brief account of the first 50 years of the existence of the Journal of European Studies from its conception at the University of East Anglia in 1969 to the present.