Thursday, September 13, 2012

did Doubke-Entry Accounting create the Abstraction that ids Capitalism

A Foundation of Capitalism http://www.economist.com/multimedia?bclid=1213687645001&bctid=1836310697001 Jane Gleeson-White wrote a new book on double-entry accounting. In this interview with the Economist she tells about how double-entry accounting originated in the Italian Renaissance, helped father Capitalism, and was the fruit of the synergies of the scientific and cultural developments of the time.

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