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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987247877
Author : Alexander Green
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118078341
It's not all about the money; the key to true riches Leo Tolstoy said, "Nobody knows where the human race is going. The highest wisdom, then, is to know where you are going." Yet many today chase the false rabbits of success: status, luxury, reputation and material possessions. In the quest to "have it all," our lives often lack real meaning and purpose. Beyond Wealth is the antidote. New York Times bestselling author Alexander Green takes things right down to brass tacks: We are here for a short time. Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, the most critical knowledge is not any particular skill but rather wisdom about "how to live." Fortunately, men and women have had several thousand years to think about what it means to live "the good life." And the answers found here, from Plato and Aristotle to Mahatma Gandhi and Stephen Hawking, will both surprise and delight you. Beyond Wealth provides insightful commentary on the most important aspects of our lives: love, work, honor, trust, freedom, death, fear, truth, beauty and other timeless issues. The book is both a thought provoking read and the ideal gift, guaranteed to ennoble, uplift and inspire.
Author : W.D. Rubinstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003854333
First published in 1980, Wealth and The Wealthy in the Modern World looks at the careers of the very wealthy and the extent of wealth-holding and wealth distribution in the major Western nations since the Industrial Revolution. Each essay examines how wealth was created, controlled and maintained in each country. It also considers the relationship between wealthy persons and the rest of society and the divisions amongst the wealthy class. Social mobility into top wealth and income brackets is also discussed, as are the idiosyncratic features of wealth-holding in each society. Together these essays provide a broad, yet detailed portrait of a social class which has had extraordinary influence on shaping the social history of the Western world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will be of interest to students of economics, political science, and development studies.
Author : John Osburg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804785358
An ethnographic study of China’s new elites and their rarified world of debauchery and corruption: “A must have book for China studies” (Choice). This pioneering investigation reveals the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the Chinese city of Chengdu. For more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and government officials. Now he invites readers along on his journey through the highly gendered world of luxury karaoke clubs, saunas, and massage parlors—places designed to cater to the desires of elite men. Within these spaces, a masculinization of business is taking place. Osburg details the complex code of behavior that governs businessmen as they go about banqueting, drinking, gambling, bribing, exchanging gifts, and obtaining sexual services. These intricate social networks play a key role in generating business, performing social status, and reconfiguring gender roles. Yet underneath the façade, many entrepreneurs feel trapped by their obligations and moral compromises in this evolving environment. Osburg examines their deep ambivalence about China’s future and their own complicity in the major issues of post-Mao Chinese society—corruption, inequality, materialism, and loss of trust.
Author : Steve Siebold
Publisher : Simple Truths
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Finance, Personal
ISBN : 1492697346
"Originally published in 2010 in the United States by London House Press. This edition issued based on the hardcover edition published in 2014 in the United States by Simple Truths, an imprint of Sourcebooks"--Title page verso.
Author : Mark Haynes Daniell,Tom McCullough
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470824290
Introducing a fresh perspective on wealth management, with proven solutions to the challenges of preserving wealth and investing well in turbulent times Family Wealth Management is coauthored by two experts in the field of private wealth - one, a former director of Bain & Company and the chairman of two of the world's largest family trusts, and the other, a CEO of a leading global family office and professor of finance from University of Toronto. The book introduces you to a unique model of wealth management that produces the desired return outcomes while being consistent with a family's overarching goals and values. The approach combines the best traditional investment and portfolio management practices with innovative new approaches designed to successfully navigate through economic climates both fair and foul. While the authors address the critical "hard" issues of asset management, they also emphasize important "soft" issues of working with families to ensure that actions are congruent with objectives, in alignment with family governance principles and designed to help sustain and grow family wealth over multiple generations. The authors provide clear guidance on how to master each component. How to establish clear family vision, values, and goals as a critical foundation to a sound wealth management strategy How to establish a practical, integrated investment framework that will ensure a consistent, disciplined approach in all environments How to set a long-term family wealth strategy and define an asset allocation model that will produce the desired results How to draft an annual investment policy statement and refine the investment tactics based on capital markets trends and changes in the family’s circumstance How to effectively monitor performance and respond to the need for change How to carefully select and manage an ecosystem of experienced, trusted financial advisors who will provide critical guidance through challenging period ahead How to successfully engage and educate the family to preserve and enhance the family’s financial wealth and human capital over the generations
Author : Chrystia Freeland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780141929903
Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0.1% ... There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and now the rich are getting wealthier at such breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out. While the wealthiest 10% of Americans, for example, receive half the nation's income, the real money flows even higher up, in the top 0.1%. As a transglobal class of highly successful professionals, these self-made oligarchs often have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen. But how is this happening, and who are the people making it happen? Chrystia Freeland, acclaimed business journalist and Global Editor-at-Large of Reuters, has unprecedented access to the richest and most successful people on the planet, from Davos to Dubai, and dissects their lives with intelligence, empathy and objectivity. Pacily written and powerfully researched, Plutocrats could not provide a more timely insight into the current state of Capitalism and its most wealthy players. 'A superb piece of reportage ... a tremendous illumination' (New Statesman on Freeland's previous title, Sale of the Century)
Author : Robert Frank
Publisher : Currency
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307341457
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population larger than Belgium and Denmark; typical citizens include “spud king” J. R. Simplot; hair stylist Sydell Miller, the new star of Palm Beach; and assorted oddball entrepreneurs. 3. A country that with a little luck and pluck, you, too, could be a citizen of. The rich have always been different from you and me, but Robert Frank’s revealing and funny journey through “Richistan” entertainingly shows that they are truly another breed.
Author : Stamatios Tsigos,Kevin Daly
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811521506
This book analyses the processes through which the modern forms of large fortunes are amassed. Despite the recent spate of governmental and non-governmental interest in inequality (be it wealth or income), the most privileged and fortunate have not generated much interest in mainstream economics. As the issue of wealth accumulation is multifaceted, the proposed book will not merely be an exercise in business history but deals with the issue from multiple perspectives, accordingly employing alternative research methods. Broadly, the trends and dynamics in high-tier wealth accumulation are coupled to the economic, political and social mechanisms that have been in play for at least half a century or more in some parts of the world. This approach leads to potential policy implications since much of the debate on wealth distribution centres on the extent to which wealth has been ‘justly’ attained. Further, how wealth is distributed in the capitalist system can have an impact upon economic growth.This book offers an alternative perspective on why we have witnessed the growth of a new social class of ultra rich. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers in international economic bodies.
Author : Felix Dennis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446490624
'Making money is a knack, a knack that can be acquired. And if someone like me can become rich, then so can you - no matter what your present circumstances. Here is how I did it and what I learned along the way.' So writes Felix Dennis, who believes that almost anyone of reasonable intelligence can become rich, given sufficient motivation and application. How To Get Rich is a distillation of his business wisdom. Primarily concerned with the step-by-step creation of wealth, it ruthlessly dissects the business failures and financial triumphs of 'a South London lad who became rich virtually by accident'. Part manual, part memoir, part primer, this book is a template for those who are willing to stare down failure and transform their lives. Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, How To Get Rich is an invaluable guide to 'the surprisingly simple art of collecting money which already has your name on it'.
Author : Mister Money
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979260613
Show off your outrageous disposable income with this amazing, ridiculous, opulent, luxurious manuscript. This book is perfect for: An item to show off on your #richkidsofinstagram feed A conversation starter for your next outrageous caviar laden 1,000 year old wine and cheese / single issue advocacy reception A coffee table book for your evil lair, island get-a-way, or fifth vacation home. The multi-millionaire who will not be shamed into responsibly, socially conscious uses of their money. A gift to a loved one, namely myself because of the royalties this book is worth. But seriously, this book is written as both a shameless capitalist endeavor and a social experiment. By a shameless capitalist spirit, I mean that we are supposed to be living in a new world, where the internet gives us an amazing opportunity to develop wealth in an entrepreneurial manner. However, everytime I wikipedia some famous internet billionaire, I find that they went to the absolute best schools in the nation, had a degree in computer science, and some start-up money from a family member to launch a website or product. Instead, I'm sitting here with a PhD in a social science, typing these words in an attempt to see if anything with a half-assed marketing plan will actually sell Now if you are a #richkidsofinstagram or trust-fund baby who wasted much of the opportunity you had in your elite schools, well, there will be a simple version of this book made available if you take enough pity upon me to buy it. As for the social experiment, perhaps this book functions as an avenue to see how foolish people can be on the internet. Perhaps this book will result in an amazing peer-reviewed article in a prestigious journal, thus eternally out of reach of any graduate student without access to a library with a specific set of journal subscriptions. Perhaps the social experiment is inverted, as I am already rich and just wanting something to talk about at my next decadent social extravaganza. Actually, more than any of the aforementioned reasons, the primary impetus for this book was to win a metaphorical bet with my wife.We are too poor to wager anything against each other, and the effort is pointless with a joint bank account, but good God almighty will I never shut up about this book and that bet if this book sells a single damn copy. If you've actually read this far, then great. You are a man/woman/alien/child who stole their parent's credit card and will hopefully click enough buttons to buy this book. However, instead of talking about what this book means for you, and your ever increasing vanity or need to feel completion, attainment, and psychological sense of security through the purchase of material goods with a socially constructed hierarchy, let's take a moment to talk about what the purchase of this book means for me. Actually, another moment, since I just used half of this description to talk about myself and my needs above. When you purchase the full paperback version of this book, you'll be providing me with a 2,000 dollar royalty (don't cheap out and go for the kindle version, that just shows you a "middle class"). What does that mean for me and my family? It means a lot actually: 10 months of my toddler's health insurance 2.5 months of my mortgage That 401k I never started A college fund, else my child will be eternally stuck making less than 10 dollars an hour or faking a disability for government benefits Does your facebook have a ton of people posting gofundme links for their health insurance? Probably not, because again, you have to be insanely rich to even buy this book. Well, consider this the classy version of a gofundme account, just on amazon, and written as a lackluster book that may or may not be complete garbage once you buy it.
Author : Robert Frank
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Millionaires
ISBN : 0749928239
Imagine a country populated with nothing but millionaires. Let's call it Richistan...In this riveting book, "Wall Street Journal" reporter Robert Frank explores the lives and lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires and billionaires - many of them self-made and from blue-collar backgrounds - and how this new gilded age is affecting wider society. Profiles of 'instapreneurs', dot-com billionaires, and eccentrics from the lower and upper reaches of Richistan take us into the rarified world of people like Ed Bazinet, who became a multi-millionaire by selling miniature ceramic villages, and Tim Blixseth, who earned billions by trading remote stretches of timberland. The influence wielded by the newly wealthy goes far beyond their earning power, and Frank also explores the lifestyles developing around them (butler schools and a new type of service employee, self-help groups for people worth $10 million or more) as well as where their money is going (the commodification of the art world, the rise of 'market-driven' philanthropy). As wealth creation becomes more and more globalised, "Richistan" looks behind the glitz to find the real story of new money and its impact on the world.
Author : Jl Collins
Publisher : Jl Collins LLC
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737724103
"In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the world of investment, JL Collins is the fatherly wizard on the side of the path, offering a simple map, warm words of encouragement and the tools to forge your way through with confidence. You'll never find a wiser advisor with a bigger heart." -- Malachi Rempen: Filmmaker, cartoonist, author and self-described ruffian This book grew out of a series of letters to my daughter concerning various things-mostly about money and investing-she was not yet quite ready to hear. Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical. "But Dad," she once said, "I know money is important. I just don't want to spend my life thinking about it." This was eye-opening. I love this stuff. But most people have better things to do with their precious time. Bridges to build, diseases to cure, treaties to negotiate, mountains to climb, technologies to create, children to teach, businesses to run. Unfortunately, benign neglect of things financial leaves you open to the charlatans of the financial world. The people who make investing endlessly complex, because if it can be made complex it becomes more profitable for them, more expensive for us, and we are forced into their waiting arms. Here's an important truth: Complex investments exist only to profit those who create and sell them. Not only are they more costly to the investor, they are less effective. The simple approach I created for her and present now to you, is not only easy to understand and implement, it is more powerful than any other. Together we'll explore: Debt: Why you must avoid it and what to do if you have it. The importance of having F-you Money. How to think about money, and the unique way understanding this is key to building your wealth. Where traditional investing advice goes wrong and what actually works. What the stock market really is and how it really works. Why the stock market always goes up and why most people still lose money investing in it. How to invest in a raging bull, or bear, market. Specific investments to implement these strategies. The Wealth Building and Wealth Preservation phases of your investing life and why they are not always tied to your age. How your asset allocation is tied to those phases and how to choose it. How to simplify the sometimes confusing world of 401(k), 403(b), TSP, IRA and Roth accounts. TRFs (Target Retirement Funds), HSAs (Health Savings Accounts) and RMDs (Required Minimum Distributions). What investment firm to use and why the one I recommend is so far superior to the competition. Why you should be very cautious when engaging an investment advisor and whether you need to at all. Why and how you can be conned, and how to avoid becoming prey. Why I don't recommend dollar cost averaging. What financial independence looks like and how to have your money support you. What the 4% rule is and how to use it to safely spend your wealth. The truth behind Social Security. A Case Study on how this all can be implemented in real life. Enjoy the read, and the journey!
Author : Mark Koyama,Jared Rubin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781509540242
Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism. Pieces of each of these theories help explain key events on the path to modern riches. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in 18th-century Britain? Why did some European countries, the US, and Japan catch up in the 19th century? Why did it take until the late 20th and 21st centuries for other countries? Why have some still not caught up? Koyama and Rubin show that the past can provide a guide for how countries can escape poverty. There are certain prerequisites that all successful economies seem to have. But there is also no panacea. A society’s past and its institutions and culture play a key role in shaping how it may – or may not – develop.
Author : Babu Krishnamoorthy
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1644295717
Has it ever occurred to you that some people are in more control of their money while you are under constant stress about your financial affairs? Have you ever wondered why? Is it because some people earn more? If so, then only the rich grow richer. However, stats show otherwise. Earning a lot has no correlation to staying wealthy. Is there a secret that you are not yet privy to? This book will reveal all key aspects of our modern life, financial tools and how we can harness them to create wealth for us yet remain reasonably stress-free in the endeavour. The secrets uncovered are nothing new. They have been brought together to help you unlock a wealthy life.