Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393346595 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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An accessible introduction to this key development in the history of capitalism.” (Edward Chancellor - Wall Street Journal)“Stimulating. Lively and elegantly written account of the history of double-entry bookkeeping. This dynamic examination of the impact and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping is sure to appeal to those in the accounting profession, business leaders, and history buffs, and will likely become required reading in business school curricula.” (Publishers Weekly) . “Entertaining and informative.” (The Economist)“Lucidly presented. Fascinating.” (Drew DeSilver - Seattle Times)“A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping.” (Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed)“Elegantly written charts the epic journey of the humble device that showed how to count the co
Luca Paciolimonk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinciincorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. With the costs of sudden corporate collapses such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of environmental and human costs, the time may have come to re-create it for the future.. Shows double entry’s role in the creation of the accounting profession, and even of capitalism itself.”The New Yorker Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. “Lively history. As Jane Gleeson-White reveals, double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global econom
Jane Gleeson-White is the author of Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, which won the 2012 Waverley Library Award for Literature. . Gleeson-White has degrees in economics and literature from the University of Sydney
"Quite Interesting" according to The Emperor. I quite enjoyed reading this. The author does a good job in writing a lively and accessible book about what many might consider to be a somewhat dry subject.I particularly liked the historical background. Some of it was truly fascinating. I hadn't realised that Pacioli was such a distinguished mathematician. It was fascinating to read the influence that double entry book keeping has had and how without it some have speculated that there might have been no "capitalism". There were some great details about Marx and Engels.There are chapters on National Income a. Very well researched and informative but drags a bit Shaan Jane has done a terrific job in terms of research and the obscure details I learned were really revealing. But it seemed like for part of the book - especially in the middle, the book dragged out a bit. The first third and the last fourth are highly entertaining and educative to read. I look forward to the next book from Jane.. An Interesting and Well Written History. What a groovy book ! A fascinating overview of the history of accounting that concludes with an excellent discussion of GDP. Well written and well paced, it is an interesting book on a subject most people wouldn't find interesting.