Book review: accounting for capitalism: the world the clerk made

Roquen, Jeff (2018) Book review: accounting for capitalism: the world the clerk made. LSE Business Review (11 Nov 2018). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made, Michael Zakim, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University, carefully examines how a new class of finance professionals within the emerging industrial order of the nineteenth century fundamentally transformed the ideological underpinnings of the American economy and democracy. From his rigorous and insightful investigation, the rise of the bookkeeper as a progenitor of modern capitalism may also be credited with refounding the nation on the basis of mobility and opportunism.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Date Deposited:	10 May 2021 14:27
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 03:00
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110423

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