The Economist imprint: 38 books
Guide to Hedge Funds
What they are, what they do, their risks, their advantages
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
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 hedge funds were being blamed by some for contributing to the credit crunch and demonised by others for their greed. The rise of the industry has created a new bunch...
Treasure Palaces
Great Writers Visit Great Museums
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. These...
The Great Disruption
How business is coping with turbulent times
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
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 disruption of business over the past five years.
The Great Disruption has many causes. The internet is spreading...
Unhappy Union
How the euro crisis and Europe can be fixed
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
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 half-built currency brought the European Union close to breaking point after decades of post-war integration.
Deep fault-lines have opened up between...
by The Economist, Bob Vause
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
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 and impressive reported profits may be hiding all sorts of problems that could even spell bankruptcy. So how do you:
Know whether a company...
Guide to Investment Strategy
How to understand markets, risk, rewards and behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
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.
Peter Stanyer and Stephen Satchell's Guide to Investment Strategy looks at the risks and opportunities of uncomplicated strategies and...
Frugal Innovation
How to do more with less
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Frugal innovation is a way that companies can create high-quality products with limited resources. Once the preserve of firms in poor markets, Western companies are now seeking ways to appeal to cost-conscious and environmentally-aware consumers at home. With an estimated trillion-dollar global market...
Guide to Financial Management
Understand and Improve the Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A practical and accessible overview of the fundamentals of business finance--now in its third edition.
Managers are constantly expected to make decisions that reflect a full understanding of the financial consequences. In the absence of formal training, few people are prepared for the responsibilities...
Guide to Cash Management
How to avoid a business credit crunch
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
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 trouble or even went bust.This tightly-written guide clearly explains the six critical aspects of the effective management of cash and cash...
by John Tennent, Graham Friend, The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
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 downsides of any business project, this new edition of the Guide to Business Modeling is essential reading for the twenty-first century business leader. This...
Business Strategy
A guide to effective decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
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, that were ill-conceived, poorly organized and consequently disastrous. This updated guide looks at the whole process of strategic decision-making,...
Managing Talent
Recruiting, Retaining, and Getting the Most from Talented People
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Survey after survey confirms how the success of businesses has become increasingly dependent on the ability and skills of their staff. And because talented workers are in short supply, the hunt for people of unusual ability will continue in earnest. Hiring such people is the relatively easy part;...
Managing Uncertainty
Strategies for surviving and thriving in turbulent times
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
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 have emerged or intensified in recent years and together conspire to undermine even the most carefully...
Guide to Intellectual Property
What it is, how to protect it, how to exploit it
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
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 for an estimated 5trn of GDP in the US alone. It covers patents, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, designs and trade...