Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance - Couverture rigide

Gleeson-white, Jane

 
9780393088960: Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393088960 ISBN 13 : 9780393088960
Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Double Entry Longitude meets The Big Short in this fascinating look at how a simple system of measuring income spawned a cultural revolution and continues to underpin modern finance, with destructive consequences. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Filled with colourful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli -- monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci -- adapted Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations.

As Jane Gleeson-White reveals, double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it fuelled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global economy. Kuznets and Keynes used it to formulate GDP, the measure of a nation's wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. With the cost of sudden corporate collapses such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of environmental and human factors, the time may have come to rethink it for the twenty-first century.

Revue de presse

Entertaining and informative. --The Economist
A lively history. --The New Yorker
Ms. Gleeson-White's narrative in "Double Entry" is clear and approachable. The complexities of accounting are lucidly presented. --Wall Street Journal
A well-researched history. --Management Today
A thoughtful and multifaceted work of history, touching on subjects as diverse as Christianity, mathematics, company law and fine arts. --The Australian

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Éditeur
W W Norton & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393088960
ISBN 13 
9780393088960
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
294
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0393346595 ISBN 13 :  9780393346596
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013
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