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The Economist Numbers Guide (6th Ed)
The Essentials of Business Numeracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
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 to general advice on basic numeracy, the guide points out common errors and explains the recognized techniques for solving financial problems,...
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;...
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 David Jacoby, The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Globalisation, technology and an increasingly competitive business environment have encouraged huge changes in what is known as supply chain management, the art of sourcing components and delivering finished goods to the customer as cost effectively and efficiently as possible. Dell transformed the...
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...
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...
The Economist Guide to Financial Markets (6th Ed)
Why they exist and how they work
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
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 to speed with the latest financial market developments, and provides a clear and incisive guide to a complex world that even those who work...
Necessary Trouble
Americans in Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism. Over the last few years, we've seen the growth of the Tea Party, a twenty-first-century black freedom...
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...
All You Can Pay
How Companies Use Our Data to Empty Our Wallets
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
While millions of consumers carry on unaware, powerful companies are racing to gain more knowledge and data than anyone, including any government, has ever had. The goal is to understand consumer behavior and desires, from mundane matters to our most private and intimate affairs. This massive trove...
Unstoppable
The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless. In Unstoppable, he explores the emerging political...
The Battle for Gotham
New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder” Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.
Urban...
The Gods that Failed
How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised economic stability but have delivered chaos. Their...
The Invisible Arab
The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program “Empire”, combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex...