Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
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Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best business book of the year as determined by the Financial Times
and Goldman Sachs
. It aims to find the book that has ‘the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.’ The award was established in 2005 and is worth £30,000. As of 2010 five short-listed authors each receive £10,000, previously it was £5,000.
2011
The longlist was announced on 9 August 2011, the shortlist was announced on 14 September and the winner was announced on 3 November 2011.
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
2010 Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
2009 Liaquat Ahamed
, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
2008 Mohamed El-Erian, When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
2007 William D. Cohan
, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
2006 James Kynge
, China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - and the Challenge for America
2005 Thomas Friedman
, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
and Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
. It aims to find the book that has ‘the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.’ The award was established in 2005 and is worth £30,000. As of 2010 five short-listed authors each receive £10,000, previously it was £5,000.
Winners and shortlist
Blue Ribbon = winner2011
The longlist was announced on 9 August 2011, the shortlist was announced on 14 September and the winner was announced on 3 November 2011.
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo is a French economist, currently the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also co-founder and the Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab...
, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Poor Economics
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of Economics at MIT. The book reports on the effectiveness of solutions to global poverty using a evidence-based randomized control trial approach...
- Barry EichengreenBarry EichengreenBarry Eichengreen is an American economist who holds the title of George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987...
, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System - Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
- Daniel YerginDaniel YerginDaniel Howard Yergin is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Inc...
, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World - Edward GlaeserEdward GlaeserEdward Ludwig "Ed" Glaeser is an economist at Harvard University. He was educated at The Collegiate School in New York City before obtaining his B.A. in economics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago...
, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier - Margaret HeffernanMargaret HeffernanMargaret Heffernan is an international businesswoman and writer. She is the author of three books: The Naked Truth: A Working Woman’s Manifesto about Business and What Really Matters, How She Does It and Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril...
, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
2010 Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
- Sheena IyengarSheena IyengarSheena Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School and the Research Director at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business. She is known for her research on choice....
, The Art of Choosing - David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the WorldThe Facebook EffectThe Facebook Effect is a book by David Kirkpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. It describes the history of Facebook and its social implications....
- Michael LewisMichael Lewis (author)Michael Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Panic and Home Game: An...
, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachineThe Big ShortThe Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a 2010 non-fiction book by Michael Lewis about the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s... - Sebastian MallabySebastian MallabySebastian Mallaby is a British-born journalist and author; and director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations . He has worked as a journalist for the Financial Times, and was a...
, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite - Andrew Ross SorkinAndrew Ross SorkinAndrew Ross Sorkin is a Gerald Loeb Award-winning American journalist, author and television personality. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box. He is also the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service published by The New York Times...
, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves
2009 Liaquat Ahamed
Liaquat Ahamed
Liaquat Ahamed is a Pulitzer-prize winning author and investment manager. He has worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C. and the New York-based partnership of Fischer, Francis, Trees and Watts, where he served as Chief Executive....
, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
- Stephen GreenStephen Green (banker)Stephen Keith Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint is a British Conservative politician the current Minister of State for Trade and Investment and former Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc...
, Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World - Nandan NilekaniNandan NilekaniNandan Nilekani born is an Indian entrepreneur. He currently serves as the Chairman of the new Unique Identification Authority of India , after a successful career at Infosys Technologies Ltd...
, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation - Frank PartnoyFrank PartnoyFrank Partnoy is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance at the University of San Diego School of Law.-Bibliography:* F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street* Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets...
, The Match King - George AkerlofGeorge AkerlofGeorge Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of...
and Robert ShillerRobert ShillerRobert James "Bob" Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management...
, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global CapitalismAnimal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global CapitalismAnimal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism is a book written to promote the understanding of the role played by emotions in influencing economic decision making... - David Wessel, In Fed We Trust
2008 Mohamed El-Erian, When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
- William J. BernsteinWilliam J. BernsteinWilliam J. Bernstein is an American financial theorist. He is known for his research in the field of modern portfolio theory and for his finance books for individual investors who wish to manage their own equity portfolios...
, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World - Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey, Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry
- Misha GlennyMisha GlennyMisha Glenny is a British journalist who specializes in southeastern Europe and global organized crime.-Biography:Glenny is the son of the late Russian studies academic Michael Glenny...
, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld - Lawrence LessigLawrence LessigLawrence "Larry" Lessig is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive...
, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy - Alice SchroederAlice SchroederAlice Schroeder is an American author and insurance analyst. In the first week of October 2008, she published The Snowball, Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, which debuted as a #1 New York Times bestseller. Alice was Institutional Investor's highest rated insurance analyst at Morgan...
, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of LifeThe Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of LifeThe Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life is a biography about Warren Buffett by Alice Schroeder.Before this book was written, Warren Buffett rejected numerous approaches by biographers, journalists, and publishers to cooperate on an account of his life...
2007 William D. Cohan
William D. Cohan
William D. Cohan is a contributing editor at Fortune, and award-winning former investigative newspaper reporter based in Raleigh, North Carolina, who worked on Wall Street for seventeen years. He spent six years at Lazard Frères in New York and later became a managing director at JP Morgan Chase....
, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Iain Carson and Vijay VaitheeswaranVijay VaitheeswaranVijay V. Vaitheeswaran is an award winning Correspondent for The Economist, covering energy and healthcare.Vaitheeswaran was born in Madras, India and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. He started working at The Economist as an intern...
, ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future - Don TapscottDon TapscottDon Tapscott is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, specializing in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. Tapscott is chairman of business strategy think tank New Paradigm , which he founded in 1993...
and Anthony D Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes EverythingWikinomicsWikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is a book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, first published in December 2006. It explores how some companies in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration and open-source technology, such as wikis, to be successful... - Alan GreenspanAlan GreenspanAlan Greenspan is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC...
, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New WorldThe Age of TurbulenceThe Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World is a 2007 memoir written by former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan. Published on September 17, 2007, the book debuted at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction.-Overview:The first half of The Age of... - Philippe LegrainPhilippe LegrainPhilippe Legrain is a British economist and writer. He specialises in global and European economic issues, notably globalisation, migration and the post-crisis world.- Early life and background :...
, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
2006 James Kynge
James Kynge
James Kynge is the editor of China Confidential, a research service of the Financial Times. He is a recipient of several journalism awards. His first book China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - and the Challenge for America describes the development of China as a superpower;...
, China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - and the Challenge for America
- Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of MoreThe Long TailThe Long Tail or long tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a 'normal' or Gaussian distribution...
- Bo Burlingham, Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
- Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy
- Marc Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy BiggerThe Box (book)The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container and how it changed the economic landscape on a major scale...
2005 Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade, the Middle East, and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times.-Personal...
, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
The World Is Flat
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors...
- Steve LevittSteve LevittSteve Levitt may refer to:* Steve Levitt * Steven Levitt, economist...
and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Pietra RivoliPietra RivoliPietra Rivoli is a professor of finance and international business at Georgetown University and author of award-winning book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. Her book is a first-person narrative aimed at explaining issues in the global economy, and traces the production and sale of...
, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade - James B. StewartJames B. StewartJames Bennett Stewart is an American lawyer, journalist, and author.-Life and career:Stewart was born in Quincy, Illinois. A graduate of DePauw University and Harvard Law School, James B. Stewart is a member of the Bar of New York and Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at the...
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, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture - Constantinos C. MarkidesConstantinos C. MarkidesConstantinos C. Markides is a Robert P. Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership at London Business School , since 1990.A native of Cyprus, he received a BA and MA in Economics from Boston University, MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School.Constantinos worked as a Research Associate at the...
, Paul GeroskiPaul GeroskiPaul Andrew Geroski was a leading economist in the United Kingdom. Although born in Pleasantville, New York, Geroski studied and spent most of his career in Britain, where he settled permanently in 1975.-Career:...
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