Family fracas

Article Abstract:

The appointment of Maurizio Gucci in June 1989 as head of his family's company, Gucci S.p.A., brings to an end a long fight among family members for control of the firm. The Gucci business has received financial support from Investcorp, which paid approximately 125 million European Currency Units for a part of the firm. Ivestcorp will hold five of ten seats on the board, and is in full support of Maurizio Gucci's business plans for the company. Maurizio Gucci's business plans include: increasing the financial commitment to marketing in order to improve the promotion of Gucci products; modernizing the firm's main plant and other production facilities; and establishing strict rules governing the company's symbols used on its products.

Management, Gucci Guccio S.p.A., Gucci, Maurizio, Investcorp Inc.

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Economics of the family

Article Abstract:

Families produce human capital. Lone-parent families have become more common. There are fewer marriageable men, and single women can bring up children on welfare. Children of single parents tend to perform less well in education and are more likely to become involved in crime. The Child Support Act aimed to push responsibility for children back to parents and away from the state. There was opposition for a number of reasons such as suffering endured by second families when funds were diverted to first families. There is likely to be an increasing burden on monogamous married couples to pay for lone parents.

Family, Single parents

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Tiger economics

Article Abstract:

Asian market demand for exotic animals, coupled with laws against raising them for profit, increases smuggling while hurting the animals themselves. Were trade in tigers, bears and rhinos legal, there would be as much incentive for preserving and breeding them as there now is for chickens and cows. Legal cash crops have never become extinct. The main barrier to such laws is irrational Western notions of which species to breed and which to 'protect.'

Editorial, Asia, Natural history, Endangered species, Protection and preservation, Wildlife conservation

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