Jacob Soll
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In The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. Time and again, Soll reveals, good and honest accounting has been a tool to build successful companies, states and empires. Yet when it is neglecte...
Jacob Soll
Hardcover
304
Allen Lane
1846146410
9781846146411
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In The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. Time and again, Soll reveals, good and honest accounting has been a tool to build successful companies, states and empires. Yet when it is neglecte...
Jacob Soll
Paperback
304
Penguin Books Ltd
0718193628
9780718193621
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As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrate...
Jacob Soll
Paperback
216
University of Michigan Press
0472033433
9780472033430
3
"Soll tells this story in wonderfully lucid prose, and with a great gift for concision. Colbert emerges from his pages not only as the patron saint of modern bureaucrats, but as a forceful--if somewhat repellent--personality, and as another of the great early modern figures who sought to gain unprec...
Jacob Soll
Paperback
328
University of Michigan Press
0472034642
9780472034642
2
Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state’s assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism and the nation...
Jacob Soll
Hardcover
312
Basic Books
0465031528
9780465031528
1
Hardcover
Basic Books
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Hardcover
Basic Books
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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by The Renaissance Society of America on December 22, 2008. The length of the article is 759 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available imme...
Jacob Soll
Digital
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The Renaissance Society of America
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