The Economist: 48 books
Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence
The technologies that are transforming them
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
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, an Israeli precision bomb, can hammer through several storeys of a building and explode on a chosen floor.
These and myriad...
The Economist: State Capitalism
The Visible Hand
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.
As Western liberalist...
Economics
Making sense of the modern economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
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 the starting point and theme of this radically revised Economist books classic, now available for the first time in America.
Richard Davies, economics...
The Economist: Cuba
Revolution in Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.
Raúl Castro is changing...
Guide to Organisation Design
Creating high-performing and adaptable enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
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 the UK) in 2006, a further 4 per cent increase from 2005'. In America between 1990 and 2000, there were over 6.3 million business start-ups...
by Matthew Bishop, The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Economics is all around us, essential to every aspect of our lives.
But just how much does the average person understand about what Economics is for, how it underpins crucial decisions taken every day and how it has, and continues to, evolve?
Step forward The Economist's official guide...
Guide to Country Risk
How to identify, manage and mitigate the risks of doing business across borders
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
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 operations, that need to understand sudden changes in business conditions. These can affect any small firm that may be looking to...
Marketing for Growth
The Role of Marketers in Driving Revenues and Profits
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
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 crucial role in generating revenue, and they can play an equally important role in how revenues translate into profit. They can help a company achieve...
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...
by The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
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For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been informing and entertaining readers around the world with its blend of the serious, the quirky and the downright surprising.
Where else would you find out, in a single volume,...
by The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensable handbook on the state of the world, covering demographics, industry, politics, geography, culture and more.
Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that Ukraine is the most equal country on earth, that Russia...
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...