GetAbstract International Book Award

The ‘‘'getAbstract International Book Award’‘' is focused on non-fiction books that have made a significant impact worldwide. Each year, getAbstract's editors assess more than 10,000 English and German non-fiction books. From these, they select 10 finalists^{[1] [2] [3]} and four winners.

Since 2001, getAbstract has awarded the prize to several esteemed authors, including Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Robert Shiller, Benoît Mandelbrot and Chris Anderson (writer), as well as their publishers. Every year, the official awards ceremony takes place at the Frankfurt Book Fair ^{[4] [5]} in Germany and is open to the public. Since 2001 the award ceremony has been moderated by Rolf Dobelli, getAbstract’s Chairman. The award has been covered by Financial Times ^{[6] [7]} Germany, Handelszeitung & The Wall Street Journal ^{[8] [9]} The Boston Globe^[10], Reuters^[11], Handelsblatt ^[12], Bloomberg Television ^[13], and several other newspapers ^[14] , magazines and websites^{[15] [16] [17] [18]}.

Winners of the getAbstract International Book Award

• 2001 – Howard Means for Money and Power
• 2001 – Benjamin Mark Cole for The Pied Pipers of Wall Street
• 2002 – Kenneth Cloke for The End of Management
• 2003 – Robert Shiller for The New Financial Order^{[19] [20]}
• 2003 – Paul Glen for Leading Geeks^{[21] [22]}
• 2004 – Benoît Mandelbrot for The (Mis)behavior of Markets
• 2005 – W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne for Blue Ocean Strategy
• 2006 – Chris Anderson for The Long Tail
• 2007 – Eugene O'Kelly for Chasing Daylight
• 2007 – Nassim Nicholas Taleb for The Black Swan
• 2008 – Thomas Sowell for Economic Facts and Fallacies
• 2008 – Bill Bonner and Lila Rajiva for Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets^[23]
• 2009 – George Akerlof and Robert Shiller for Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
• 2009 – Niall Ferguson for The Ascent of Money
• 2010 – David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter for Accelerating out of the Great Recession
• 2010 – Peter Schiff and Andrew Schiff for How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes
• 2011 - Tom Devine and Tarek F. Maassarani for The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide
• 2011 - Ian Morris for Why the West Rules – for Now

References

[4] boersenblatt.net - Webzine for the German Book Trade
[5] Wirtschaftsblatt

External links

• getAbstract International Book Award home page