Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside
In the 1610s and 1620s, a new computational technology took hold in England: printed mathematical tables for compound interest and discounting (“present value”) problems. Historians of finance and accounting have long recognized these paper tools as predecessors of essential modern techniques like “...
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University of Chicago Press
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153931 |