Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance / Jane Gleeson-White.
By: Gleeson-White, Jane.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012Edition: 1st American ed.Description: 294 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780393088960 (hbk.).Subject(s): Accounting -- History | Bookkeeping -- History | Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History | Capitalism -- History | Finance -- History | Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 657.09| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HF5605 .G54 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000001305 |
Includes bibliographical references ( p.271-282) and index.
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.