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Double entry, how the merchants of Venice created modern finance, Jane Gleeson-White

Label
Double entry, how the merchants of Venice created modern finance, Jane Gleeson-White
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Double entry
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
783160450
Responsibility statement
Jane Gleeson-White
Sub title
how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
Summary
The history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping
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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