ISBN: 9781804281772 - the merchant's ledger: ancient lessons on wealth that outlast every market (10 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In The Merchant's Ledger, Eleanor Voss tells the story of how a medieval scale keeper in the city of Verathspent ten honest years weighing grain and wool at the public market - then destroyed his reputation in threemonths because he borrowed money to throw a wedding no one remembers. Through the recorded observationsof Aldric Bonn, the man who replaced him, this book reveals why people who obsess over their bank balanceoften accidentally bankrupt the invisible account that makes those numbers matter: their reputation for honestywhen no one's watching.Aldric's predecessor, Ossin, fell into systematic fraud not through greed but through shame - the wedding debtwas too large, the shortfall too visible, and "just this once" seemed like the only way to make the numbers work.Voss maps how that first compromise - shaving a twentieth-part off a merchant's grain weight, pocketing thedifference - became a pattern that unraveled a decade of trust in less than a season. Readers see the exactpsychological mechanism that turns an honest person into someone the market can't trust, and why the invisiblescale - the one tracking whether your word means anything - compounds faster than any financial return.You'll learn: - Why the visible scale (bank balance, salary, net worth) means nothing without the invisible scale (whetherpeople believe you'll do what you said)- How financial shame triggers the voice that says "just this once, no one will notice"- The exact ninety-day sequence Ossin followed from honest scale keeper to market fraud- Why debt incurred to impress strangers destroys trust faster than debt incurred for survival- How trust infrastructure - the invisible agreement that makes exchange possible - collapses under oneperson's This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In The Merchant's Ledger, Eleanor Voss tells the story of how a medieval scale keeper in the city of Verathspent ten honest years weighing grain and wool at the public market - then destroyed his reputation in threemonths because he borrowed money to throw a wedding no one remembers. Through the recorded observationsof Aldric Bonn, the man who replaced him, this book reveals why people who obsess over their bank balanceoften accidentally bankrupt the invisible account that makes those numbers matter: their reputation for honestywhen no one's watching.Aldric's predecessor, Ossin, fell into systematic fraud not through greed but through shame - the wedding debtwas too large, the shortfall too visible, and "just this once" seemed like the only way to make the numbers work.Voss maps how that first compromise - shaving a twentieth-part off a merchant's grain weight, pocketing thedifference - became a pattern that unraveled a decade of trust in less than a season. Readers see the exactpsychological mechanism that turns an honest person into someone the market can't trust, and why the invisiblescale - the one tracking whether your word means anything - compounds faster than any financial return.You'll learn: - Why the visible scale (bank balance, salary, net worth) means nothing without the invisible scale (whetherpeople believe you'll do what you said)- How financial shame triggers the voice that says "just this once, no one will notice"- The exact ninety-day sequence Ossin followed from honest scale keeper to market fraud- Why debt incurred to impress strangers destroys trust faster than debt incurred for survival- How trust infrastructure - the invisible agreement that makes exchange possible - collapses under oneperson's This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In The Merchant's Ledger, Eleanor Voss tells the story of how a medieval scale keeper in the city of Verathspent ten honest years weighing grain and wool at the public market - then destroyed his reputation in threemonths because he borrowed money to throw a wedding no one remembers. Through the recorded observationsof Aldric Bonn, the man who replaced him, this book reveals why people who obsess over their bank balanceoften accidentally bankrupt the invisible account that makes those numbers matter: their reputation for honestywhen no one's watching.Aldric's predecessor, Ossin, fell into systematic fraud not through greed but through shame - the wedding debtwas too large, the shortfall too visible, and "just this once" seemed like the only way to make the numbers work.Voss maps how that first compromise - shaving a twentieth-part off a merchant's grain weight, pocketing thedifference - became a pattern that unraveled a decade of trust in less than a season. Readers see the exactpsychological mechanism that turns an honest person into someone the market can't trust, and why the invisiblescale - the one tracking whether your word means anything - compounds faster than any financial return.You'll learn: - Why the visible scale (bank balance, salary, net worth) means nothing without the invisible scale (whetherpeople believe you'll do what you said)- How financial shame triggers the voice that says "just this once, no one will notice"- The exact ninety-day sequence Ossin followed from honest scale keeper to market fraud- Why debt incurred to impress strangers destroys trust faster than debt incurred for survival- How trust infrastructure - the invisible agreement that makes exchange possible - collapses under oneperson's This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In The Merchant's Ledger, Eleanor Voss tells the story of how a medieval scale keeper in the city of Verathspent ten honest years weighing grain and wool at the public market - then destroyed his reputation in threemonths because he borrowed money to throw a wedding no one remembers. Through the recorded observationsof Aldric Bonn, the man who replaced him, this book reveals why people who obsess over their bank balanceoften accidentally bankrupt the invisible account that makes those numbers matter: their reputation for honestywhen no one's watching.Aldric's predecessor, Ossin, fell into systematic fraud not through greed but through shame - the wedding debtwas too large, the shortfall too visible, and 'just this once' seemed like the only way to make the numbers work.Voss maps how that first compromise - shaving a twentieth-part off a merchant's grain weight, pocketing thedifference - became a pattern that unraveled a decade of trust in less than a season. Readers see the exactpsychological mechanism that turns an honest person into someone the market can't trust, and why the invisiblescale - the one tracking whether your word means anything - compounds faster than any financial return.You'll learn: - Why the visible scale (bank balance, salary, net worth) means nothing without the invisible scale (whetherpeople believe you'll do what you said)- How financial shame triggers the voice that says 'just this once, no one will notice'- The exact ninety-day sequence Ossin followed from honest scale keeper to market fraud- Why debt incurred to impress strangers destroys trust faster than debt incurred for survival- How trust infrastructure - the invisible agreement that makes exchange possible - collapses under oneperson's.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Merchant's Ledger | Ancient Lessons on Wealth That Outlast Every Market | Eleanor Voss | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Readers First Publishing LTD | EAN 9781804281772 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …