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Gleeson-White, Jane.
Subjects
Accounting -- History.
Bookkeeping -- History.
Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- History.
Capitalism -- History.
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Double entry : how t...
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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.
Summary:
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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Non-fiction
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