Essential Investment

Replacing the long-running pocket series, this new Economist essential A-Z series is launched in Spring 2003 in a strikingly attractive paper back format, with flaps and distinctive red end papers. Following an introduction on the roller coaster ride the stock market has taken over the past decade and the implications it has for businesses, private investors and people's pensions, the bulk of the book is a much expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain with the essentials of the investment world - as well as some of its more arcane aspects.