Accounting for capitalism: the world the clerk made - 54572

The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below.

Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling?

In 'Accounting for Capitalism', Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the 'bottom line' became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust.