Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

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.’^[1] The award was established in 2005 and is worth £30,000.^[1] As of 2010 five short-listed authors each receive £10,000, previously it was £5,000.^[1]

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon () = winner

2011

The longlist was announced on 9 August 2011,^[2] the shortlist was announced on 14 September^[3] and the winner was announced on 3 November 2011.^[4]

• Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
• Barry Eichengreen, 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 Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
• Edward Glaeser, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
• Margaret Heffernan, 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 Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
• David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
• Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
• Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves

2009

• Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
• Stephen Green, Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World
• Nandan Nilekani, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation
• Frank Partnoy, The Match King
• George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
• David Wessel, In Fed We Trust

2008

• Mohamed El-Erian, When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
• William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
• Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey, Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry
• Misha Glenny, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
• Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
• Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

2007

• William D. Cohan, 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 Vaitheeswaran, ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
• Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
• Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
• Philippe Legrain, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

2006

• James Kynge, 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 More
• 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 Bigger

2005

• Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
• Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade
• James B. Stewart, DisneyWar
• John Battelle, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
• Constantinos C. Markides, Paul Geroski, Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets

Notes

External links

• Official website