''Financial Times'' 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 The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nikke ...

''. 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 . Beginning in 2010, five short-listed authors each receive , previously it was . The award's principal partner was Goldman Sachs from 2005–2013, when it was known as the "''Financial Times'' and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award".

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

supported the Business Book Award from 2014 until 2021, when it was known as the "''Financial Times'' and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award". Since 2014, the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award is presented at the same time as the

Bracken Bower Prize The ''Financial Times'' and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize (or simply the ''Bracken Bower Prize'') is an annual award given to the best business book proposal of the year by a young writer, as determined by the ''Financial Times'' and McKinsey & Com ...

for young business writers.

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon () = winner

2005

The shortlist was announced 20 September 2005, and the winner announced 24 November 2005. * John Battelle, ''The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture'' *

Steven Levitt Steven David Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book ''Freakonomics'' and its sequels (along with Stephen J. Dubner). Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the ...

and

Stephen Dubner Stephen Joseph Dubner (born August 26, 1963) is an American author, journalist, and podcast and radio host. He is co-author of the popular ''Freakonomics'' book series: ''Freakonomics'',Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of ...

, '' Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'' *

Thomas Friedman Thomas Loren Friedman (; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for ''The New York Times''. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global ...

, '' The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century'' * Constantinos C. Markides,

Paul Geroski Paul Andrew Geroski (18 October 1952 – 28 August 2005) was a leading economist in the United Kingdom. Although born in Pleasantville, New York, United States, Geroski studied and spent most of his career in Britain, where he settled perma ...

, '' Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets'' *

Pietra Rivoli Pietra Rivoli is a professor of Finance and International Business International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale. It involves ...

, ''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''

2006

The shortlist was announced 18 September 2006, and the winner announced 27 October 2006. * Chris Anderson, '' The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More'' *

Bo Burlingham Bo or BO may refer to Arts and entertainment Film, television, and theatre *Box office, where tickets to an event are sold, and by extension, the amount of business a production receives *'' BA:BO'', 2008 South Korean film * ''Bo'' (film), a ...

, ''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'' * James Kynge, '' China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future – and the Challenge for America'' * Marc Levinson, '' The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger''

2007

The shortlist was announced 25 September 2007, and the winner announced 25 October 2007. * William D. Cohan, '' The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.'' * Alan Greenspan, '' The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World'' *

Philippe Legrain Philippe Legrain is a British political economist and writer. He specializes in global and European economic issues, notably globalisation, migration, the post-crisis world and the euro. A visiting senior fellow at the London School of Econo ...

, ''Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them'' * Nassim Nicholas Taleb, '' The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable'' * Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams, '' Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything'' * Iain Carson and

Vijay Vaitheeswaran Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is global energy and climate innovation editor of ''The Economist''. Previously he served as ''The Economist's'' U.S. business editor and its first China bureau chief. His editorial expertise includes climate change, energy a ...

, ''ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future''

2008

The shortlist was announced 18 September 2008 and the winner announced 14 October 2008. * William J. Bernstein, ''A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World'' * Tim Bouquet &

Byron Ousey George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...

, ''Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry'' *

Mohamed El-Erian Mohamed Aly El-Erian ( ar, محمد العريان, Muḥammad al-ʿAryān; born August 19, 1958) is an Egyptian-American economist and businessman. He is President of Queens' College, Cambridge, and chief economic adviser at Allianz, the corpora ...

, '' When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change'' *

Misha Glenny Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny (born 25 April 1958) is a British journalist and broadcaster, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity. He is multilingual. He is also the writer and producer of the BBC Radio 4 ...

, ''McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld'' * Lawrence Lessig, '' Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy'' *

Alice Schroeder Alice Schroeder (born December 14, 1956) is an American executive, financial journalist, and author who was Berkshire Hathaway's leading sell-side insurance analyst at Morgan Stanley and later became Warren Buffett's appointed biographer. Schroed ...

, '' The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life''

2009

The longlist was announced 12 August 2009, the shortlist announced around 18 September 2009, and the winner announced 29 October 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 George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. ...

and Robert Shiller, '' Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism'' * David Wessel, ''In Fed We Trust''

2010

The longlist was announced 9 August 2010, the shortlist was announced 16 September 2010, and the winner announced 19 October 2010. *

Sheena Iyengar Sheena S. Iyengar is a former S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Department at Columbia Business School, widely and best known as an expert on choice. Her research focuses on the many facets of decision making, including: why people ...

, ''The Art of Choosing'' * David Kirkpatrick, '' The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World '' *

Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) Gale Biography In Context. is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to '' Vanity Fair'' since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. H ...

, '' The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine'' * Sebastian Mallaby, '' More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite'' *

Raghuram G. Rajan Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Quote: "I am an Indian citizen. I have always b ...

, '' Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy'' * Andrew Ross Sorkin, '' Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves''

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 Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize ...

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'' * 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'' * Richard Rumelt, ''Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters '' *

Daniel Yergin Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, speaker, energy expert, and economic historian. Yergin is vice chairman of S&P Global. He was formerly vice chairman of IHS Markit, which merged with S&P in 2022. He founded ...

, '' The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World''

2012

The shortlist was announced on 13 September 2012. The winner was announced on 2 November 2012. *

Daron Acemoglu Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-born American economist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1993. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. H ...

and

James A. Robinson James Alan Robinson (born 1960) is a British economist and political scientist. He is currently the Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University ...

, ''Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty'' *

John M. Coates John Coates is a neuroscientist and applied physiologist working on the biology of risk taking. He was until 2016 research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge. Before that he was a trader on Wall Street, working for ...

, ''The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust'' *

Steve Coll Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an American journalist, academic and executive. He is currently the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is also the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism. A staff writer ...

, ''Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power'' * Walter Isaacson, '' Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography'' * Michael J. Sandel, ''What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets'' * William L. Silber, ''Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence''

2013

The longlist was announced in August 2013. The shortlist was announced on 18 September 2013. The winner was announced on 18 November 2013. *

Neil Irwin Neil is a masculine name of Gaelic and Irish origin. The name is an anglicisation of the Irish ''Niall'' which is of disputed derivation. The Irish name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", "victory", "honour" or "champion".. A ...

, ''The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers'' * Iain Martin, ''Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy'' * Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, ''Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think'' *

Anita Raghavan Anita or ANITA may refer to: Arts * ''Anita'' (1967 film), an Indian film * ''Anita'' (2009 film), an Argentine film * ''Anita'' (2021 film), a Hong Kong film *'' Anita: Swedish Nymphet'', a 1973 erotic film People *Anita (given name), people w ...

, ''The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund'' * Sheryl Sandberg, ''Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead'' * Brad Stone, '' The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon''

2014

The longlist was announced 6 August 2014. The shortlist was announced 24 September 2014. The winner was announced 11 November 2014. *

Julia Angwin Julia Angwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and entrepreneur. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impact of technology ...

, ''Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance'' * Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, ''The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies'' * Ed Catmull, ''Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration'' * Nick Davies, '' Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch'' * Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, ''House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again'' * Thomas Piketty, '' Capital in the Twenty-First Century''

2015

The longlist was announced 12 August. The shortlist was announced 22 September. The winner was announced 17 November. The winner received £30,000, and £10,000 was awarded to each of the remaining shortlisted books. * Martin Ford, ''The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment'' *

Jacquie McNish Jacquie may refer to any of these people: *Jacquie Armstrong, Canadian curler *Jacquie Beltrao, British sports journalist and presenter *Jacquie de Creed (died 2011), English stunt woman *Jacquie Durrell, first wife of Gerald Durrell *Jacquie Jorda ...

and

Sean Silcoff Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Irish English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name ''Yohanan'' (), Seán (anglicized as ''Shaun/Shawn/ Shon'') and Séan (Ulster variant; angliciz ...

, ''Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry'' * Nathaniel Popper, ''Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin'' * Anne-Marie Slaughter, '' Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family'' * Richard Thaler, ''Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics'' *

Stephen Witt Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; h ...

, ''How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?''

2016

The longlist was announced 7 August. The shortlist was announced 9 September. The winner was announced 22 November. * Iris Bohnet, ''What Works: Gender Equality by Design'' * Duncan Clark, ''Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built'' * Rana Foroohar, ''Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business'' *

Robert J. Gordon Robert James Gordon is an American economist. He is the Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences at Northwestern University. Gordon is one of the world’s leading experts on inflation, unemployment, and long-term economic growth. His ...

, ''The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War'' * Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott, ''The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity'' * Sebastian Mallaby, '' The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan''

2017

The longlist was announced 13 August. The shortlist was announced on 19 September. The winner was announced 7 November. * David Enrich, ''The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History'' * Amy Goldstein, '' Janesville: An American Story'' *

Andrew W. Lo Andrew Wen-Chuan Lo () (born 1960) is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lo is the author of many academic articles in finance and financial economics. He founded AlphaSimplex Group in 1 ...

, ''Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought'' *

Brian Merchant Brian Merchant is an American technology journalist and book author. He is the technology columnist at the ''Los Angeles Times'', and wrote ''The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone'' (2017). Biography Merchant is from Sacramento, Califor ...

, ''The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone'' * Ellen Pao, ''Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change'' * Walter Scheidel, ''The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century''

2018

The longlist was announced 13 August. The shortlist was announced on 14 September. The winner was announced 12 November. *

John Carreyrou John Carreyrou () is a French-American journalist and writer who worked for ''The Wall Street Journal'' for 20 years between 1999 and 2019 and has been based in Brussels, Paris, and New York City. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice and is well kno ...

, '' Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup'' *

James Crabtree James Crabtree is a British author and policy analyst living in Singapore. He is currently executive director of the Asia branch of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Crabtree writes columns for Nikkei Asian Review, Foreign Pol ...

, '' The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age'' * Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge, '' Capitalism in America: A History'' * Annie Lowrey, ''Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World'' * Mariana Mazzucato, ''The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy'' * Jeremy Heimans &

Henry Timms Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...

, ''New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You''

2019

The longlist was announced 10 August. The shortlist was announced 16 September. The winner was announced 3 December. * Caroline Criado-Perez, '' Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men'' * David Epstein, '' Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World'' * Christopher Leonard, '' Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America'' * Raghuram Rajan, ''The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World'' *

Shoshana Zuboff Shoshana Zuboff (born 18 November 1951) is an American author, Harvard professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar. Zuboff is the author of the books ''In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power'' and ''The Suppo ...

, '' The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power'' *

Gregory Zuckerman Gregory S. Zuckerman (born September 7, 1966) is a special writer at '' The Wall Street Journal'' and a non-fiction author. Education and family Gregory Zuckerman grew up in Rhode Island and was graduated from Brandeis University, magna cum lau ...

, ''The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution''

2020

The longlist was announced 16 August. The shortlist was announced 23 September. The winner was announced 1 December.

2021

The longlist was announced 15 August. The shortlist was announced on 24 September. The winner was announced on 1 December. *

Javier Blas Javier may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Javier, in video game '' Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' * Javier Rios, a character in the Monsters, Inc. franchise. * ''Javier'' (album), a 2003 album by the American singer Javier Colon, known a ...

and

Jack Farchy Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA People and fictional characters * Jack (given name), a male given name, ...

, ''The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources'' * Patrick Radden Keefe, '' Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty'' * Robert Livingston, ''The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations'' *

Michael E. Mann Michael Evan Mann (born 1965) is an American climatologist and geophysicist. He is the director of the Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media at the University of Pennsylvania. Mann has contributed to the scientific understanding of his ...

, '' The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet'' *

Nicole Perlroth Nicole may refer to: People * Nicole (name) * Nicole (American singer) (born 1958), a contestant in season 3 of the American ''The X Factor'' * Nicole (Chilean singer) (born 1977) * Nicole (German singer) (born 1964), winner of the 1982 Euro ...

, ''This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race'' * Adrian Wooldridge, ''The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World''

2022

The longlist was announced on 14 August. The shortlist was announced on 22 September. The winner was announced on 5 December. *

Matthew Campbell Matthew Campbell may refer to: *Matthew Campbell (Australian footballer) (born 1964), former Australian rules footballer with Brisbane and current commentator *Matt Campbell (Australian footballer) (born 1987), current Australian rules footballer wi ...

and

Kit Chellel Kit may refer to: Places *Kitt, Indiana, US, formerly Kit * Kit, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province * Kit Hill, Cornwall, England People * Kit (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Kit (surname) Animals * Young animal ...

, ''Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry'' *

Lulu Chen Lulu may refer to: Companies * LuLu, an early automobile manufacturer * Lulu.com, an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer * Lulu Hypermarket, a retail chain in Asia * Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, a C ...

, ''Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition'' * Gary Gerstle, ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era'' * Sebastian Mallaby, ''The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption'' *

Chris Miller Chris or Christopher Miller may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Chris Miller (writer) (born 1942), American comedy author and screenwriter *Chris Miller (animator) (born 1968), American voice actor and director * Christopher Miller (filmmaker) ( ...

, ''Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology'' * Helen Thompson, ''Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century''

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