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100 1  Gleeson-White, Jane. 
245 10 Double entry :|bhow the merchants of Venice created modern
       finance /|cJane Gleeson-White. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Co.,|c2012. 
300    294 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-282) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
650  0 Accounting|xHistory. 
650  0 Bookkeeping|xHistory. 
650  0 Bookkeeping|zItaly|zVenice|xHistory. 
650  0 Finance|zItaly|zVenice|xHistory. 
650  0 Finance|xHistory. 
650  0 Capitalism|xHistory. 
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