family-economics

Although written primarily for financial planning professionals, this book is very accessible for individuals seeking guidance for creating and managing personal wealth via trusts. Readers will learn how the development of mega-banks and baby-boomer wealth has changed the nature of trust management. The authors (principals of investment advisory firms) include many helpful questionnaires and decision trees that will help with the planning process, both for existing trusts and for those developing new trusts. Sophisticated readers may find the lack of thorough footnoting disappointing.

The author describes what a family entrepreneur needs to know in order to run a successful family business. The autor also highlights three major management functions - communication, cooperation and control for a family business owner such as how to evaluate relatives in a family business. It is practical and valuable because small family business owners may not know how to handle such situations effectively. After reading this book, it helps me to understand how to manage my family business practically. In the last two chapters the author also address the problems of succession and retirement that I haven't thought before. Anyway, I recommend this book to those people to plan or just started his or her small family business.

This book is a good way of learning how to learn about what goes on in the office or business.

Easy to read text. Responses to kids' questions run the gamut from quick zingers to thoughtful and thought provoking. My kids have almost stopped asking, "Mom, can I have....?"

In 1995, according to the Foundation Center, approximately 40,000 active private and community foundations in the USA awarded over $12 billion in grants to nonprofit organizations -- in the USA and many other countries. Corporate contributions for both company-sponsored foundations (whose giving is included in the $12 billion figure) and direct corporate giving programs amounted to about $6 billion. Just the sheer volume of grantmaking gives pause to grantseekers looking for foundation, corporate and other charitable support for children, youth or families. As its name implies, the National Guide to Children, Youth & Families is an indispensable guide in getting started. The volume contains 3,635 entries, including 3,224 grantmaking foundations, 182 direct corporate giving programs and 229 public charities (including 188 community foundations) that have shown a substantial interest in children, youth or families, either as part of their stated fields of interest, or through the actual grants of $10,000 or more reported to the Foundation Center. One of the more useful features is the book's listing of actual grants made. Nearly $1 billion was handed out for causes benefiting children, youth and families, representing 13,891 grants made.

I have owned this book for several years and it has seen me through the poorest of times into home ownership, stock ownership, insurance, safe deposit box, and mutual fund ownership, and more. This book explains all aspects of finances in terms a beginner can understand. It also gives strategies for becomming financially secure that even the more experienced can appreciate. I use this book again and again. It is a great motivator and teacher. The only reason I gave it four stars rather than five is because it is due for a reprint. So much has changed financially in the past five years that I think it may be a little outdated for those just starting out now. I would definitely buy a new release. Buy it, read it, do it, and get out of the hole!

In desperation, I turned to "Organize Your Family...Simple Routines For You and Your Kids". I am an incredbly left brained person and orgnization comes somewhat naturally. My daughter is extremely right brained. The problem is comunicating my ideas into something she can understand and follow. Not as easy as one might think. This book saved her life and my sanity. There are a lot of books on the shelves, but they deal mostly with desks, files and grown-up stuff. Our goal was to teach organization now so that she can accomplish more in life. The book was easy to follow and broken up in to easy-to-refer-back-to categories. We still have a ways to go, but we have put some of the tecniques into practice.

This book will take you back in time that you will be able to smell the gun powder and hear the wooden hammer of James Purdey the elder falling on a part of a flintlock gun at his small Princess street shop in the year 1816.

The Author tells the fascinating story of the ups and downs of a family and business nearly 200 years old in an accurate, subjective and pleasent way, he has a great sense of humor as well.

Some pieces of information regarding the very early days of the business are not as accurate as Donald Dallas' book, nevertheless, it's one of the musts if you are a Purdey aficionado.

Dr. Samuel A. Jones (1834-1912) was a physician and Thoreau scholar who lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Horace Hosmer (1830-1894) was a small businessman in Acton and Concord, Massachusetts. They formed a friendship when their paths crossed in 1890, and they exchanged letters from that point on until Horace's death in 1894. Much of their correspondence dealt with the then-contemporary image of Henry David Thoreau, who had been popularized in an 1888 biography by F. B. Sanborn. Dr. Jones was a devoted fan of the naturalist; Horace was a family friend who had once been a student in Henry and John Thoreau's school. Both set out to refute details revealed in the Sanborn book.

Enter George Hendrick, an English professor who in 1974 discovered this collection of Horace's letters in the attic of Dr. Jones' daughter-in-law. While the doctor's replies have not survived, Horace's side of the conversation is revealing enough, and we can fill in the blanks. We get a general idea of what life was like in Concord in the 1890s, especially regarding politics. And we learn a great deal about the personal life of Horace Hosmer, of course. He gives specifics about his own health condition, which seems natural enough because he was speaking with a doctor. He talks about his own pencil-making business and compares it to the Thoreau family operation. He dispels rumors that Henry's cabin was a stop on the Underground Railroad. He glows with respect for Henry's brother John and for their parents, John and Cynthia. Just as we come to know and nearly understand this common man, we read a final letter from his daughter, who writes to Dr. Jones the day after her father died.

An informal but revealing and sometimes amusing glimpse of life at a certain time, in a certain place.

This is one of those books written by a University Professor, which covers a curious, non-mainstream topic in Italian history. An overlooked topic, until recently, Professor Balestracci focuses on the lifestyles of the peasants, rather than their more illustrious peers.

Because of the nature of the subject matter, it can get a bit dry by analyzing and summarizing related data gleaned from diaries and account books. As an academic read, I would give it a five star, but as a history book, marketed to the public, it goes down a notch.