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The French Canal du Midi at the 17th century: accounting gaps and financial innovations

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  • Jean-Guy Degos
  • Christian Prat Dit Hauret

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Pierre-Paul Riquet build the Royal waterway of Languedoc (France) at the 17th century, waterway became then the Canal du Midi. In its time, it was the most significant European project. Inspired by other models of waterways built since Antiquity, it was used as model or example with much of others. To build their channel, Riquet and its collaborators chose a systemic approach and could reconcile the total aspect and the technical details of the project. The financing of the project should not surprise the modern investors: contributions of owners' equity, financing by public capital (the King) and private, loans and taxes are not made to surprise the contemporary accountants and the credit men. Lastly, all the archives of the channel were preserved, and we can study neither his technical details, but nor his accounting books day by day.

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  • Jean-Guy Degos & Christian Prat Dit Hauret, 2011. "The French Canal du Midi at the 17th century: accounting gaps and financial innovations," International Journal of Economics and Accounting, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(1), pages 53-75.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijecac:v:2:y:2011:i:1:p:53-75
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    1. Petko Atanasov & Jean-Guy Degos, 2022. "The Relative Nature of Success and Failure – Function of Time and Context," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 5, pages 46-70.

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