From the Book - First American edition.
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.
