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The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations de Jacob Soll

The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations

Autor Jacob Soll
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2015
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780718193621
ISBN-10: 0718193628
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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.

Descriere

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 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.

Recenzii

"The Reckoningdemonstrates how financial transparency and accounting--essential for capitalism and our global economy--are linked with political transparence and accountability."
—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"a dazzling book, rigorously researched and demonstrating an extraordinary scholarly range."—Literary Review(UK)
"Soll's book is chock-full of valuable snippets of information."—Global Finance
"Mr. Soll spices his story with big historical personalities.... [He] earns high marks for brevity...as well as for scholarship."—Wall Street Journal
"[A] brilliant, deceptively brief book.... Soll pulls off the miracle of making his history not a monolith but a mosaic."—Los Angeles Review of Books
"A history of accounting may not sound like an exciting read, but Soll spares us the details of double-entry bookkeeping and instead tells a series of engaging stories of well-known historical events.... I'd strongly recommend this book for the fresh insight it brings to familiar historical events, and for its author's ability to find the compelling human stories in the dry world of income statements and balance sheets."
—Andrew Blackman
"Who would imagine that a history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping could be so engaging? Yet in this concise, sharply argued book, Jacob Soll deftly examines and explains the remarkable impact that the practice of accounting has had on the rise--and sometimes the fall--of nation states."
—Jack Rakove, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofOriginal Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
"Who knew accounting was so interesting? Jacob Soll does, and in this masterful history of the men and women who have kept, and sometimes cooked, our books, he will convince you, too.The Reckoningdoes what the best history should: it piques our interest in accounts of the past so that we may better balance our own."—Darrin M. McMahon, author ofDivine Fury: A History of Genius
"Every student, teacher and practitioner of business or government should know this history of accounting, from its grounding in theology and philosophy to its central role in the rise of modern commerce, statecraft, and indeed, civilization itself."—Robert Bloomfield, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management and Accounting, Cornell University
"Many have long known, or at least suspected, that CPAs rule the world. The proof is here.The Reckoningis a tale of power, empire, art and culture--and of their half-hidden puppetmasters from the Roman Empire to the Gilded Age."—James K. Galbraith, author ofThe End of Normal
"[F]ascinating.... [A] readable romp through a history ofaccounting."—Economia(UK)