Double Entry : How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet.
ISBN:
9781741767933
Title:
Double Entry : How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet.
Author:
Gleeson-White, Jane.
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Accounting: Our first communications technology -- 2. Merchants and mathematics -- 3. Luci 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 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Format:
Electronic Resources
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Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
Sydney :
Allen & Unwin,
2011.
©2011.