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how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world : and how their invention could make or break the planet

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An edition of Double entry (2011)

Double entry

how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world : and how their invention could make or break the planet

  • 8 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

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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Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Language
English
Pages
294

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Cover of: Double Entry
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
2013, Allen & Unwin
in English
Cover of: Double Entry
Cover of: Double Entry
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
2013, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
Cover of: Double entry
Double entry: how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
2012, W.W. Norton & Co.
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Double Entry
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
2012, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
Cover of: Double entry

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Table of Contents

Preface: Bobby Kennedy and the wealth of nations and corporations
1. Accounting: our first communications technology
2. Merchants and mathematics
3. Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity
4. Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494
5. Venetian double entry goes viral
6. Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession
7. Double entry and capitalism
chicken and egg?
8. John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations
9. The rise and scandalous rise of a profession
10. Gross Domestic Product and how accounting could make or break the planet.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Crows Nest, N.S.W

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.122
Library of Congress
HF5605 .G544 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
294 pages
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31883137M
Internet Archive
doubleentryhowme0000glee
ISBN 10
174175755X, 1743311559
ISBN 13
9781741757552, 9781743311554
OCLC/WorldCat
754601620

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