Now the world is interested in Finland, its environment, economy and technology. This bestselling book, now in its third edition, tackles the issues that foreigners are curious about, not necessarily what the Finns would expect them to ask or would like to tell them.

The design, 265 questions on a great array of subjects, makes it easy for the reader to find just what he needs. Some answers are inevitably controversial but none are dull.

Patrick Humphreys is a British-born economist and journalist who worked in Finland in the 1980s and 1990s as a news editor for the Finnish Broadcast Company and then as a correspondent for Reuters. His other books about business and ecology include Forests in Global Warming, Harmony of Life and Nature and the annual Yearbooks of the Finnish Economy.