Externalities are a choice: why society should expect company directors to take impact responsibility

Jeremy Nicholls

By expressing issues such as low pay or overuse of carbon as 'externalities', we have let company directors, their auditors and investors off the hook, ignoring the actions they could take to address these issues using existing accounting standards, warns Jeremy Nicholls.

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