''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
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''. 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 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 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.
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John Battelle
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Thomas Friedman
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DisneyWar
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2006
The shortlist was announced 18 September 2006, and the winner announced 27 October 2006.
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Alan Greenspan
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Don Tapscott
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The shortlist was announced 18 September 2008 and the winner announced 14 October 2008.
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William J. Bernstein
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Misha Glenny
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, ''McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld''
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Lawrence Lessig
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Nandan Nilekani
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, ''Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation''
* Frank Partnoy, ''The Match King''
* George Akerlof and
Robert Shiller
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Michael Lewis
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Sebastian Mallaby
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Andrew Ross Sorkin
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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
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Barry Eichengreen
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, ''Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System''
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Edward Glaeser
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He was educated ...
, ''Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier''
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Margaret Heffernan
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, ''Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril''
* Richard Rumelt, ''Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters ''
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Daniel Yergin
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Steve Coll
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, ''Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power''
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Walter Isaacson
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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, ''The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers''
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Iain Martin
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, ''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, ''The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund''
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Sheryl Sandberg
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Erik Brynjolfsson
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Andrew McAfee
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Ed Catmull
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Nick Davies
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Atif Mian
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Amir Sufi
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Thomas Piketty
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, ''
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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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 and Sean Silcoff, ''Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry''
* Nathaniel Popper, ''Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin''
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Richard Thaler
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The longlist was announced 7 August. The shortlist was announced 9 September. The winner was announced 22 November.
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Iris Bohnet
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, ''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, ''The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War''
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Lynda Gratton
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Born in ...
and Andrew Scott, ''The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity''
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Sebastian Mallaby
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The longlist was announced 13 August. The shortlist was announced on 19 September. The winner was announced 7 November.
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David Enrich
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Education
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, ''Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought''
* Brian Merchant, ''The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone''
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Ellen Pao
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, ''Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change''
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Walter Scheidel
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, ''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.
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John Carreyrou
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Alan Greenspan
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Adrian Wooldridge
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Life and career
Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowshi ...
Annie Lowrey
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, ''Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World''
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Mariana Mazzucato
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, ''The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy''
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Jeremy Heimans
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& Henry Timms, ''New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You''
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 and Jack Farchy, ''The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources''
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Patrick Radden Keefe
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Adrian Wooldridge
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Life and career
Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowshi ...
, ''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 and Kit Chellel, ''Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry''
* Lulu Chen, ''Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition''
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Gary Gerstle
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Early life
Gary Gerstle received his BA from Brown Univers ...
, ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era''
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Sebastian Mallaby
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, ''The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption''
* Chris Miller, ''Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology''
* Helen Thompson, ''Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century''