Reckoning Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

Name: Reckoning Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
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ISBN: 9780465031528

ISBN-10: 0465031528

ISBN-13: 9780465031528

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Authors: Jacob Soll

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For centuries, the importance of financial accounting has been well understood. Essential to building businesses, states, and even empires, accounting has also helped leaders measure their power and craft their policies. When practiced poorly or neglected, accounting has contributed to cycles of destruction, as the 2008 financial crisis has made all too clear. In The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fate of entire societies. In the right hands, accounting has created social stability, good governance, and economic prosperity. In the wrong hands, good accounting practices have often been subverted, with…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 4/29/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English