Doctoral Thesis

Charlotta Bay’s dissertation "Making Accounting Matter" is concerned with the so called “financialization of everyday life”: a world wide phenomenon which defines the increasing influence of capital markets on ordinary household behaviours. This tendency might be observed in more or less intentional attempts to change people’s habits and attitude towards their own private finances, such as their savings, insurances, pensions, mortgages. However, people do not walk into this role ready made. In order to become financially capable, people must be given means and tools of becoming just that. They need to go through a transformation in which they are educated how to think, act and appreciate life according to financial terms. Charlotta’s dissertation explores different educational attempts aiming at equipping everyday people with this financial capability. Three activities are spotted – a government initiated financial education programme; a makeover TV-programme (The Luxury Trap); and the telemarketing strategies of a pension insurance company – investigating how they try to actively shape and change people’s habits and attitudes towards their own private economy.

Publikationer

Articles

• Bay, C. (2011) Framing Financial Responsibility: An analysis of the limitations of accounting, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 593-607.
• Bay, C., Catasús, B. and Johed, G. Situating Financial Literacy, Critical Perspectives on Accounting.

Conference Papers

• Bay, C. (2011) Makeover Accounting: investigating the financial edutainment of everyday life.
• Bay, C. (2010) Framing Financial Responsibility: The Fabrication of Choice Making Consumers in Everyday Life.
• Bay, C. (2008) The Housing of Accounting: On the Making of Financial Man. Author: Charlotta Bay formerly Karlsson

Doctoral Thesis

• Bay, C. (2012) Making Accounting Matter: A Study of the Constitutive Practices of Accounting Framers, Doctoral thesis / Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet. ISSN: 1103-8454, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.