The Reckoning
by Jacob Soll · first published 2014
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An award-winning historian presents a wide-ranging history of accounting, discussing how basic auditing and double-entry bookkeeping have shaped kingdoms and empires as well as how misuse of this system caused the 1929 Crash and the 2008 financial crisis.
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The direction of progress is the direction of increasing accountability good book about that - https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Financial-Accountability-Ri... tldr thesis is that the invention of double entry bookkeeping is the thing that has caused modern prosperity, not capitalism. Consider a 1600s merchant – without the ability…
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