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Six Capitals : or, Can Accountants Save the Planet? : Rethinking Capitalism for the Twenty-first Century by Jane Gleeson-White [Gleeson-White, Jane] is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Six Capitals : or, Can Accountants Save the Planet? : Rethinking Capitalism for the Twenty-first Century about?
A timely and fascinating account of the revolution going on in the world of finance from the acclaimed author of Double Entry . This is the story of a twenty-first-century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants. Only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping began, it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and our ongoing environmental crisis. The changes it will wreak are profound and far-reaching and not only will transform the way the world does business but also will alter the nature of capitalism. While the wealth of nations and corporations has been vital to the global economy, increasingly the world is coming to realize that such endless growth is limited by the earth's resources and comes at a huge price to the planet and to human well-being. It simply cannot be sustained. This revolution demands that we go beyond merely accounting for traditional financial and industrial capital and take account of the benefits and detriments to the natural world and society. It urges us to include four new categories of wealth: intellectual (such as intellectual property), human (skills, productivity, and health), s
Who reads Six Capitals : or, Can Accountants Save the Planet? : Rethinking Capitalism for the Twenty-first Century?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Jane Gleeson-White [Gleeson-White, Jane]
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393246674
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Economics, Business, Memoir
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (26 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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