Early Modern Bookkeeping and Life-Writing Revisited: Accounting for Richard Stonley

The Rationality of Early Modern Merchant Bookkeeping: a Quantitative Approach

We offer a way to test to what extent double-entry book-keeping is the vector of rationalization of merchant activity that was described by Weber, and explore alternative possible motivations. We move the focus away from the structure and theory of accounts into the daily practice of the agents themselves. We use the new, unique database of eighteenth-century merchant accounts developed in Fran...

diagnostic and developmental potentials of dynamic assessment for writing skill

این پایان نامه بدنبال بررسی کاربرد ارزیابی مستمر در یک محیط یادگیری زبان دوم از طریق طرح چهار سوال تحقیق زیر بود: (1) درک توانایی های فراگیران زمانیکه که از طریق برآورد عملکرد مستقل آنها امکان پذیر نباشد اما در طول جلسات ارزیابی مستمر مشخص شوند; (2) امکان تقویت توانایی های فراگیران از طریق ارزیابی مستمر; (3) سودمندی ارزیابی مستمر در هدایت آموزش فردی به سمتی که به منطقه ی تقریبی رشد افراد حساس ا...

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

The Wider Viewpoint of Early Bookkeeping Texts

This paper re-evaluates the scope of selected early bookkeeping texts, in order to address commonly held and well-documented misconceptions regarding the nature of those texts. Specifically, it reviews the content of Pacioli’s treatise of 1494, of Mellis (1588), Peele (1553) and Weddington (1567) to demonstrate that these texts were prepared by authors with an awareness of the commercial realit...

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