The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations by Jacob Soll

The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

Jacob Soll

276 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative slow-paced
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Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeepi...

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