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|title=Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family Businesses

|author=David Landes

|date=January 2007

|isbn=978-0670885312

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It's not surprising that family-run companies have dominated the business world for hundreds of years: after all it tends to be the family who are brought in to help in the early stages and then the family to whom it's eventually passed if the business is successful. David Landes uses his background in history and economics to examine some of the dynasties which have dominated banking, automobiles and raw materials and to look at what makes them flourish or fail.