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100 _aJacob Soll
245 _aThe Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations
082 _a657.09
260 _aGreat Britain
_bPenguin Books
_c2015
520 _aIn 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 neglected or falls into the wrong hands, accounting has contributed to cycles of destruction that continue to this day. Combining rigorous scholarship and fresh storytelling, The Reckoning traces the surprisingly powerful influence of accounting on financial and political stability, from the powerful Medici bank in the 14th century Italy to the 2008 financial crisis.
655 _aEconomics
655 _aHistory
655 _aBusiness
655 _aFinance
655 _aAccounting
655 _aMoney
655 _aPolitics
655 _aNonfiction
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_d58558