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Author Gleeson-White, Jane.

Title Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance / Jane Gleeson-White.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  657.09 GLEESON-WHITE, JANE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  657.09 GLE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  657.09 GLE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  657.09 GLEESON-WHITE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  657.09 GLE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  657.09 G47    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  657.09 GLE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  657.09 GLEESON-WHITE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  657.09 GLEESON-WHITE    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 294 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-282) and index.
Summary Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that could work across all trades and nations.
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.
Subject Accounting -- History.
Bookkeeping -- History.
Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- History.
Capitalism -- History.
ISBN 9780393088960 hardback $25.95
0393088960 hardback
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