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The Moon
An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with itEvery generation has looked towards the heavens…
Guide to Financial Management
A practical and accessible overview of the fundamentals of business finance -- now in its third edition. Managers are constantly expected to make decisions that…
Style Guide
This expanded eleventh edition of the bestselling guide to style is based on the Economist's own updated house style manual, and is an invaluable companion…
Guide to Investment Strategy
Now in its fourth edition, this classic guide to investment strategy has been revised to give up-to-date ideas on pensions, investments of passion and more.…
The Fate of the West
The West seems to be in retreat -- even from itself -- and cracks have appeared in the structures of international collaboration built after 1945.…
Go Figure
Go Figure: Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know brings together for the first time the very best explainers and charts, written and created by…
Treasure Palaces
In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell us about…
Why Deals Fail
The combined value of all M&A deals from 1980 to the end of 2015 was almost 65 trillion -- bigger than the current annual world…
Economics: An A-Z Guide
Economics is all around us, crucial to every aspect of our lives. But how many of us know what an absolute advantage or a zero-sum…
Growing a Business
Growth is a clear goal for ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders. It's often a short hand for business - and wider economic - success. But it's…
The World in Conflict
In the last decade, the USA and its allies have invaded Afghanistan; Russia has sent troops into Ukraine; Britain and France helped topple a regime…
Economics
The world of economics is changing. Years of turmoil in the global economy mean that nothing will ever be quite the same again. This is…
Guide to Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property (IP) is often a company's single most valuable asset. And yet IP is hard to value, widely misunderstood and frequently under-exploited. IP accounts…
The Great Disruption
The Great Disruption is a collection drawn from Adrian Wooldridge's influential Schumpeter columns in The Economist addressing the causes and profound consequences of the unprecedented…
Business Strategy
The effectiveness of a good strategy well implemented determines a business' future success or failure. Yet history is full of strategic decisions, big and small,…
Guide to Organisation Design
Business failure is not limited to start ups. Industry Watch (published by BDO Stoy Hayward, an accounting firm) 'predicts that 17,043 businesses will fail (in…
Guide to Analysing Companies
In today's volatile, complex and fast-moving business world, it can be difficult to gauge how sound a company really is. An apparently strong balance sheet…
Guide to Country Risk
Country risk explains the things that can go wrong when business is conducted across borders. It's not just multinational companies, with factories worldwide and complex…
Unhappy Union
The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of…
The Chief Financial Officer
The rapid rise in importance of the role of the chief financial officer -- from back-office accountant to front-line executive -- is unrivaled by that…
The Economist Guide to Emerging Markets
The growth that companies can achieve from their operations in home and developed world markets has for many years been modest. Real opportunities to take…
Guide to Business Modelling
Full of practical help on how to build the best, most flexible, and easy-to-use business models that can be used to analyze the upsides and…
Managing Talent
Survey after survey confirms how the success of a business has become increasingly dependent on the ability and skills of its staff. And because talented…
Guide to Managing Growth
The how-to guide to tackling business growth problems head on Responding effectively to the demands of a growing company, regardless of size, is one of…
Guide to Supply Chain Management
Globalization, technology and an increasingly competitive business environment have encouraged huge changes in what is known as supply chain management, the art of sourcing components…
Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence
The Panzerfaust-3, a German shoulder-fired heat-seeking antitank missile, can punch through a metre of solid steel-far more than any armoured vehicle could carry. The MPR-500,…
Managing Uncertainty
Managing uncertainty has become a new business imperative. Technological discontinuities, regulatory upheavals, geopolitical shocks, abrupt shifts in consumer tastes or behavior, and many other factors…
Guide to Hedge Funds
In 1990 hedge funds managed some 39 billion of assets and were almost unknown. By 2008 that figure had grown to almost 2 trillion and…
Guide to Cash Management
The credit crunch highlighted to businesses the importance of cash management, as those firms which ran short of cash discovered when they found themselves in…
Marketing for Growth
The Economist: Marketing for Growth is a guide to how marketing can and should become a business's most important driver of growth. Marketers play a…
The Economist Guide to Financial Markets (6th Ed)
Extensively revised and updated following the fallout from the global financial crisis, the 6th edition of this highly regarded book brings the reader right up…
The Economist Numbers Guide (6th Ed)
The Economist: Numbers Guide is invaluable for everyone who has to work with numbers, which in today's commercially focused world means most managers. In addition…