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The Economist Style Guide
The Economist
The best selling guide to English usage, now in paperback.
This expanded tenth edition of the bestselling guide to style is based on theEconomist'sown updated house style manual, and is an invaluable companion for everyone who wants to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which theEconomistis renowned. As the introduction says,'clarity of writing...
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The Economist Guide to Cash Management
John Tennent
For all businesses that want to avoid a credit crunch, this guide will be invaluable
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 flow. These ...
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The Economist Guide to Cash Management
John Tennent
For all businesses that want to avoid a credit crunch, this guide will be invaluable
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 flow. These ...
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The Economist: Megachange
The Economist
Building on the hugely successful annualEconomist'The World in ...'publications, this essential ...
In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared with 7 billion today - and the number will still be rising. The population aged over sixty-five will have more than doubled, to more than 16 per cent; China's GDP will be 80 per cent more than...
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The Economist: Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence
Benjamin Sutherland
For those who want to be smart about our ability to wage war and to protect ourselves - and where ...
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 ...
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The Economist Guide to Managing Growth
Rupert Merson
The challenges to be overcome and the strategies to follow in building a bigger and better business...
Successful and ambitious organisations recognise the'growth imperative'but are often insufficiently aware of what might threaten continued success. Growth means change. What worked last year won't necessarily work next year - an organisation that wants to manage growth successfully will need to ...
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The Economist Guide to Business Modelling
Graham Friend, John Tennent
New, fully updated and expanded edition of the definitive guide to creating business models for ...
All organisations face more and more complex decision-making while the risks dependent on their decisions require increasingly explicit understanding of potential outcomes. The new edition of this widely acclaimed guide is full of practical help on ...
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The Economist: Economics (3rd edition)
The Economist
The real world realities of the far from dismal science
A radically revised new edition of this highly readable, popular guide aimed at everyone from students to statesmen who want to make sense of the modern economy and grasp how economic theory works in practice.It starts with the basics: what economics is about; the sources of economic growth such as people and investment; the role of central ...
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The Economist: Organisation Culture
Naomi Stanford
The importance of a business's culture to sustainable success
An organisation's culture either gives it a competitive advantage or a competitive disadvantage. It is a crucial factor in determining how successful a business is and how much people want to work for an organisation. That is why managers are putting more and more emphasis on getting their organisation's culture right. This book ...
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The Economist Guide To Economic Indicators
Richard Stutely
Making sense of Economics
It is even more essential in business and many professions today than in the past to have a thorough understanding of economic information. Written for the non-specialist, this highly accessible guide provides the keys to understanding all the major and many lesser economic indicators: what they are, the areas they cover, their reliability, and how and why to interpret ...
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The Economist Guide to Hedge Funds
Philip Coggan
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 of billionaires, who have made themselves rich by managing other people's money. Jim Simons, a ...
