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Gleeson-White, Jane.
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Accounting -- History.
Bookkeeping -- History.
Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- History.
Capitalism -- History.
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Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance /
Jane
Gleeson-White
.
by
Gleeson-White
,
Jane
.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
Subjects
Accounting -- History.
Bookkeeping -- History.
Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- History.
Capitalism -- History.
ISBN:
9780393088960 (hbk.)
0393088960 (hbk.)
Description:
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Contents:
Accounting: our first communications technology -- Merchants and mathematics -- Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity -- Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494 -- Venetian double entry goes viral -- Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession -- Double entry and capitalism; chicken and egg? -- John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations -- The rise and scandalous rise of a profession -- Gross domestic product and how accounting could make or break the planet.
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Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that could work across all trades and nations.
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