Preface: Bobby Kennedy and the wealth of nations and corporations
1 Accounting: our first communications technology
3 Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity
4 Pacioli’s landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494
5 Venetian double entry goes viral
6 Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession
7 Double entry and capitalism—chicken and egg?
8 John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations
9 The rise and scandalous rise of a profession
10 Gross Domestic Product and how accounting could make or break the planet