Doesn't sound very interesting, but the orderly discipline of the double entry, crated to give confidence to business operations  (Melville's novel,  Confidence Man, is an extended metaphorical exploration of the idea of "confidence").  Mary Poovey's book, The Modern Fact, is a detailed exploration of how double entry bookkeeping had a major impact on scientific approaches to data, as well as setting the scene for a self-contained sense of commercial accounting and the use of money in extended formats.