The Reckoning
financial accountability and the making and breaking of nations
$36.46
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2015
Summary
The Reckoning: How Accounting Shapes Nations
A bold retelling of economic history reveals the central role of accounting in the rise and fall of nations.
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 neglected or falls into the wrong…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780718193621 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0718193628 |
| Author: | Jacob Soll |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Jacob Soll
Jacob Soll is a Professor of History and Accounting at the University of Southern California, and received his doctorate from Cambridge University. He is the author of Publishing The Prince, which won the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society, and The Information Master. A MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow, Soll writes regularly for The New York Times, Book Forum, and The New Republic.
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