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A fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever.
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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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