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Appreciative readers (they tend to be long-term readers as well) of The Economist sometimes wonder why misspellings and non sequiturs are virtually absent from that superb weekly magazine.
The answer?: an obsessive dedication to editorial rigor, nowhere better exemplified than in this ‘style guide’ for the numbers set. It doubles as a methodological guide, for it sets out near canonical equations and means for solving economic problems.
Nine chapters cover:
Key concepts
Finance and investment
Descriptive measures for interpretation and analysis
Tables and charts
Forecasting techniques
Sampling and hypothesis testing
Incorporating judgments into decisions
Decision-making in action
Linear programming and networking
This guide should be required reading for everyone who manages from a numbers-intensive platform.
Canter Bridge 
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