Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
David S. Landes, "Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses"
English | ISBN: 0143112473 | 2007 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1085 KB
English | ISBN: 0143112473 | 2007 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1085 KB
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,
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