The Economist is one of the world’s most widely recognised and well-read current affairs publications, offering more than 1.6 million readers each week the trusted analysis and insight they need to understand the world around them. Profile’s Economist Books list reflects and shares these ambitions, offering a range of publications which aim to inform and entertain readers with the latest ideas, debates and analysis.
The list includes classics such as the annual Pocket World in Figures through to smart thinking on topics as wide ranging as the future of business or the latest on the role of contemporary Economics – as well as delightfully surprising and entertaining gift and humour titles like Figuring Out the Past or Seriously Curious. The classic Economist Business Guides series continues to provide leaders and managers with information they need to support organisational development and growth.
Pocket World In Figures 2022
The new edition of this annual bestseller, packed with amazing data about the world in 2022
The Classical School
Callum Williams
A breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to the founders of economics – how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of their i…
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Philip Coggan
A panoramic history of trade, industry and economic thought, from prehistoric times to the present.
The Economist Guide To Change And Project Management
Paul Roberts
How to make sure that projects run to budget and schedule – and deliver the intended results.
Unconventional Wisdom
Tom Standage
Another bestselling collection of astonishing explainers from The Economist
Pocket World in Figures 2021
The new edition of this annual bestseller, packed with amazing data about the world in 2021
The World in Conflict
John Andrews
From a top Economist journalist, an all-new guide to the world's conflicts – recent, current and future
Uncommon Knowledge
Tom Standage
Following up 2016's hit Go Figure and 2018's Sunday Times bestseller Seriously Curious, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explain…
Talk on the Wild Side
Lane Greene
Why won't language do as it's told? Join the Economist's Johnson columnist on a headspinning journey of discovery