In recent years, Economic Model Predictive Control has emerged as a variant of traditional (tracking) MPC which aims at maximizing economic profitability by directly minimizing, over a receding prediction horizon, the costs incurred in system’s operation. Several design alternatives have been proposed in the literature, as well as suitable tools for the analysis of stability and performance of the different design methods. This note provides the authors’ perspective on some of the most relevant results that appeared within this framework as well as, for interested readers, references to the technical papers where such results have first been discussed.