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      The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System

      Jacob Soll

      Jean-Baptiste Colbert saw governance of the state not as the inherent ability of the king, but as a form of mechanical mastery of subjects such as medieval legal history, physics…

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

      Jacob Soll

      A MacArthur Genius presents a sweeping history of accounting: showing how the fraught relationship between financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empires.

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      The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations

      Jacob Soll

      Shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. This book traces the influence of accounting on financial and political stability, from the…

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      Free Market: The History of an Idea

      Jacob Soll

      From a MacArthur "Genius," a new intellectual history of Free Market ideology, revealing that it has always been more flexible than uncompromising theorists like Milton Friedman would have us believe

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      Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790

      Under Peter Leopold (r. 1765-90), Tuscany became the most important laboratory of Enlightened reform in all of Europe. Few societies underwent as many reforms in such a short period or…

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      Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790

      Under Peter Leopold (r. 1765-90), Tuscany became the most important laboratory of Enlightened reform in all of Europe. Few societies underwent as many reforms in such a short period or…

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