Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance“Lively history. . . . Show[s] double entry’s role in the creation of the accounting profession, and even of capitalism itself.”—The New Yorker |
Contents
from Sansepolcro to celebrity | |
Paciolis landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494 | |
Venetian doubleentry goes viral | |
Double entry and capitalismchicken and egg? | |
John Maynard Keynes double entryandthewealth ofnations | |
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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance Jane Gleeson-White Limited preview - 2012 |
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World : and how ... Jane Gleeson-White No preview available - 2011 |
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance Jane Gleeson-White No preview available - 2013 |
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