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Home Economics in the US (1870-1930)

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Moral Accounting in the Victorian Period (1830-1880)

  • Art of Virtue – Benjamin Franklin

    Art of Virtue – Benjamin Franklin

    A famous example of a moral accounting grid stems from Benjamin Franklin’s Art of Virtue. Franklin’s Art of Virtue relied on a tracking device that registers moral progress in terms of self-control ...

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Moral Accounting in Geneva (1800-1845)

  • Journal moral de 1819

    Moral diary of 1819

    For the years 1819 and 1820, François-Marc-Louis Naville (1784-1846), a pastor and schoolteacher from Geneva, conceived two major moral diaries. After more than ten years of experimentation, he discovered the Mémorial horaire by ...

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