Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
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Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
W.W. Norton, 2012, c2011
1st American ed
- : hbk
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Double entry : how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world--and how their invention could make or break the planet
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"First published in Australia by Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 2011 under the title Double entry : how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world--and how their invention could make or break the planet"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index
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内容説明
Filled with colorful 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-incorporated 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 fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global economy. John Maynard Keynes would use it to calculate GDP, the measure of a nation's wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. 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.
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