Abstract: This article examines and compares three grids that were designed to serve explicit moral accounting goals: the calculation and improvement of character. The examples...
Harro Maas, True Grid: Three case Studies of Moral Accounting Lire plusAbstract: This essay examines the importance of an accounting culture for the rise of marginalism in Victorian England. I trace the use of accounting tools in family and private life to fend off...
Harro Maas, Lett’s Calculate. Moral Accounting in the Victorian Period Lire plusAbstract : This paper examines the self-measurement and self-tracking practices of a turn-of-the nineteenth-century Genevese pastor and pedagogical innovator, François-Marc-Louis Naville, who extensively used Benjamin Franklin’s tools of moral calculation...
Harro Maas, Monitoring the self: François-Marc-Louis Naville and his moral tables Lire plus