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Jane Gleeson-White

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Australia

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Jane Gleeson-White is a writer, editor and speaker, and is well known for her work on literature, economics and the natural world. She is the author of the bestselling, internationally acclaimed Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world (2011) and its sequel Six Capitals: The revolution capitalism has to have (2015). Her first two books are about literature: Classics (2005) and Australian Classics (2007).

Jane is a regular commentator on economics and sustainability, including for the Sundance Film Festival, United Nations and European Union. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Wired, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Meanjin, Overland, Wellbeing and Good Reading magazin ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 1,166 ratings · 196 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World 3.55 avg rating — 946 ratings — published 2011 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Capitals, or Can Accountants Save the Planet?: Rethinking Capitalism for the Twenty-First Century 4.13 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Classics: 62 Great Books from the Iliad to Midnight's Children 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Australian Classics: 50 Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing the Country (Griffith Review, #63) by Ashley Hay (Goodreads Author) (editor), Julianne Schultz (Contributor), Kim Mahood (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Classics: Books For Life 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Met a Martian, and Other Stories by Deborah Abela (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Debra Adelaide, Sunil Badami 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Overland Issue 204 by Jeff Sparrow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anthony Panegyres (Goodreads Author) (Contributing Author), Jane Gleeson-White (Fiction Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nowhere Else In The World by Nicholas Brash, Jane Gleeson-White really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As Francesco Datini of Prato did a century before, Pacioli advises merchants to incorporate explicit signs of Christianity into their books as a way of legitimising their profit-seeking activities. The use of double entry itself was like the Catholic confession: if a merchant confessed—or accounted for—all his world activities before God, then perhaps his sins would be absolved. These Christian flourishes that Pacioli recommends merchants include in their books are therefore no mere ornaments.”
― Jane Gleeson-White, Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World

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“To honour his bills of exchange, Badoer had at least four accounts with local bankers in Constantinople, where banking was organised along the same lines as on the Rialto: a bank’s primary function was not to lend money, but to transfer the funds of its depositors, who personally presented themselves to authorise the transfer of money to creditor accounts in different cities.”
― Jane Gleeson-White, Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance

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“(Demanding interest on loans was not permitted anywhere in Europe until 1545, when Henry VIII legalised it in England.)”
― Jane Gleeson-White, Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance

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