Dynasties

Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family Businesses

David Landes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2007
Viking (Verlag)
978-0-670-88531-2 (ISBN)

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Presents powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America to determine what factors can cause a dynasty to flourish or fail. Drawing on the author's knowledge of economic history, this book offers a reading of dynastic business history. It provides insights into many business legends.

In "Dynasties", award-winning historian, David Landes scrutinizes powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America to determine what factors can cause a dynasty to flourish or fail. Drawing on his immense knowledge of economic history, Landes offers a startling new reading of dynastic business history. He provides fascinating insights into business legends, like the brilliant but difficult John D. Rockefeller, who became the richest man in the America of his day yet at the height of his wealth paid his children ten cents to sharpen pencils and wore his suits until they shone, or Henry Ford, maker of the famous Model T motor car, who shunned university graduates and put a former floor-sweeper in charge of his research lab. The life stories of these remarkable individuals contain all the drama and passion expected when extraordinary money, power and kinship interconnect, and are essential reading for anyone with an interest in business and world history.

David Landes is Professor Emeritus of History and Economics at Harvard University. He is the author of the bestselling The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.1.2007
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 241 mm
Gewicht	740 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-670-88531-2 / 0670885312
ISBN-13	978-0-670-88531-2 / 9780670885312
Zustand	Neuware