Gleeson-White, Jane. <br/><br/>
Double entry :  how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world - and how their invention could make or break the planet  
Jane Gleeson-White. 
 - Crows Nest, N.S.W. :  Allen & Unwin,  2011. 
 - 294 pages ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that could work across all trades and nations. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781743311554 1743311559 9781743311493 1743311494 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Pacioli, Luca 1445-1509 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bookkeeping--History.--History.<br/>Bookkeeping.<br/>Capitalism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Capitalism - History - Finance 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>657.209 GLE