“L'État c'est moi”....ou quoi? On the interrelations of accounting, managing and governing in the French ‘administrative monarchy’: revisiting the Colbert (1661-1683) and Paris brothers (1712-1726) episodes
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Keywords
Colbert; Paris brothers; double-entry bookkeeping; administrative monarchy; graphocentric panopticism; modern management; governmentality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N0 - Economic History - - General
- M40 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2018-05-21 (Accounting and Auditing)
- NEP-HIS-2018-05-21 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HPE-2018-05-21 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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