Double Entry

Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White won the Waverley Library Award for Literature in 2012. Gleeson-White graduated from the University of Sydney with degrees in economics and literature.

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, which received glowing reviews from The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and The Wall Street Journal, became an instant best book after winning the Nib Waverly Library Award2 for Literature in 2012. Double Entry, written by lifelong journalist and novelist Jane Gleeson-White, is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand how those of us in the United States and Europe got up with the flavor of capitalism that we have now.

The fact that a book about the history of accounting won a literary award should tell you everything you need to know about Gleeson-skill White's as a storyteller. The plot begins around 7,000 B.C. and concludes with the 2008 financial crisis. If that seems like a lot to cover in one book, you'd be right; but, Gleeson-White manages it with such ease that it undercuts the intricate story being conveyed. Double Entry is an essential work of historical and economic significance, and its depiction of our economy's tremendous advancement over time provides enough of food for thought for those in and out of the accounting profession.

Author: Jane Gleeson-White

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Double-Entry-Merchants-Created-Finance/dp/0393346595/

Ratings: 4.1 out of 5 stars (from 177 reviews)

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