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Auteur(s): Jane Gleeson-White
Narrateur(s): Julia Farhat
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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.

©2011 Jane Gleeson-White (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Europe Économie Capitalisme Entreprise Mathématiques Histoire ancienne Moyen Âge Socialisme Italie Renaissance
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“A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping.” (Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed)
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people complain about the narration by computer, I have to agree that it is somewhat monotonous, but it does have the advantage that all the names in foreign languages are properly pronounced and not butchered.


the historical account is really interesting, learned a lot from this book..

ending is hopelessly Keynesian, pro-regulation

excellent book, biased ending

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I don’t know why the director though that this narrator was a good choice. She sounds like a robot and i will not be able to listen to this book. I tried speeding it up to no avail.

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