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Dynasties

Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses

Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses

By David S. Landes

By David S. Landes

By David S. Landes

By David S. Landes

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Category: Economics

Category: Economics

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Sep 25, 2007 | ISBN 9780143112471

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Sep 25, 2007 | ISBN 9781101650905

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    About Dynasties

    From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin

    David S. Landes has earned a reputation as a brilliant writer and iconoclast among economic historians. In his latest acclaimed work, he takes a revealing look at the quality that distinguishes a third of today’s Fortune 500 companies: family ownership. From the banking fortunes of Rothschild and Morgan to the automobile empires of Ford and Toyota, Landes explores thirteen different dynasties, revealing what lay behind their successes-and how extravagance, bad behavior, and poor enterprise brought some of them to their knees. A colorful history that is full of surprising conclusions, Dynasties is an engrossing mix of ambition, eccentricity, and wealth.

    About Dynasties

    From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin

    David S. Landes has earned a reputation as a brilliant writer and iconoclast among economic historians. In his latest acclaimed work, he takes a revealing look at the quality that distinguishes a third of today’s Fortune 500 companies: family ownership. From the banking fortunes of Rothschild and Morgan to the automobile empires of Ford and Toyota, Landes explores thirteen different dynasties, revealing what lay behind their successes-and how extravagance, bad behavior, and poor enterprise brought some of them to their knees. A colorful history that is full of surprising conclusions, Dynasties is an engrossing mix of ambition, eccentricity, and wealth.

    About David S. Landes

    David S. Landes is professor emeritus of history and economics at Harvard and author of the bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. His other books include Bankers and Pashas, The Unbound Prometheus, and Revolution in Time.

    About David S. Landes

    David S. Landes is professor emeritus of history and economics at Harvard and author of the bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. His other books include Bankers and Pashas, The Unbound Prometheus, and Revolution in Time.

    Product Details

    Category: Economics

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 25, 2007 | 400 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143112471

    Category: Economics

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 25, 2007 | 400 Pages | ISBN 9781101650905

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    Praise

    Dynasties is rich in anecdote and will bring pleasure to the many readers who admired Landes’s last book. . . . It offers the same combination of shrewd insight and an engagingly conversational style. (Niall Ferguson, The New Republic)

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