We Need to Be Grandly Ambitious: Lessons from Accountancy’s History
Jacob Soll | July 26, 2016 |
In the past, accountants played key leadership roles in statecraft and policymaking, accounting historian Professor Jacob Soll teaches. To get back to a similar place will require individual accountants and our profession to take on new roles, and develop new skills.
Professor, Journalist, University of Southern California
Jacob Soll is a historian of early modern Europe who is researching the origins of the modern state. He is currently a professor at the University of Southern California and has won the 2005 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History and been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. In 2011 he was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. See more by Jacob Soll
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