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) for their work in English or German. The initial focus of the award was on books from the genres economics, politics, and society. Over the years, the focus has narrowed more specifically to business-relevant books. The award intends to raise the visibility of "(...) titles that make a difference to how eoplethink, work, and live.” Until 2020, the award ceremony took place at the

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2018 Frankfurt Book Fair winners Rick Peterson and Judd Hoekstra

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and winners, consists of getAbstract staff and external partners. All jury members receive an equal vote. The members in 2021 include the

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The jury considers books published in the twelve months preceding the award.

Winners of the getAbstract International Book Award

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longlists
which in 2021 include titles by

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winner

Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...

et al,

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Jacinta M. Jiménez, and 2019 winner Dan Pontefract.

Chronological list of winners

2020 *

Rosabeth Moss Kanter Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15, 1943) is the Ernest L. Arbuckle professor of business at Harvard Business School.

, ''Think Outside the Building'' *

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 ...

Esther Duflo Esther Duflo, FBA (; born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist who is a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the co-founder and co-director of the Ab ...

, ''

Good Economics for Hard Times ''Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems'' is a 2019 nonfiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of economics at MIT. It was published on November 12, 2019 by PublicAffairs (US), Jug ...

'' * Veronika Hucke, ''Fair führen'' *

Clemens Fuest Clemens Fuest (born 23 August 1968) is a German economist who has been President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and director of the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich (LMU) since 2016. Career Between 2008 and 201 ...

, ''Wie wir unsere Wirtschaft retten'' 2019 * Denise Hearn, Jonathan Tepper, ''The Myth of Capitalism'' * Dan Pontefract, ''Open to Think'' * Kai Strittmatter, ''Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur'' * Benedict Herles, ''Zukunftsblind'' 2018 * Rick Peterson, Judd Hoekstra, ''Crunch Time'' *

Adam Greenfield Adam Greenfield is an American writer and urbanist, based in London. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1968. Early life Greenfield attended New York University, graduating with a degree in Cultural studies in 1989. Between 1995 and 200 ...

, ''Radical Technologies'' *

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (born 1966) is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He conducts research into the network economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's ...

, Thomas Ramge, ''Das Digital'' * Martin J. Eppler, Sebastian Kernbach, ''Meet up!'' 2017 *

Joshua Cooper Ramo Joshua Cooper Ramo (born December 14, 1968) is vice chairman and co-chief executive of Kissinger Associates, the consulting firm of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He is also the author of several non-fiction books including two ...

, ''The Seventh Sense'' *

Mark Stevenson Mark Stevenson (born 1971) is a London-based British writer, businessman, public speaker and 'reluctant' futurologist, as well as a semi-professional musician and former comedian. Stevenson's first book, '' An Optimist's Tour of the Future'', wa ...

, ''We Do Things Differently'' * Yvonne Hofstetter, ''Das Ende der Demokratie'' * Carsten Hentrich, Michael Pachmajer, ''d.quarks'' 2016 *

Jonah Berger Jonah or Jonas, ''Yōnā'', "dove"; gr, Ἰωνᾶς ''Iōnâs''; ar, يونس ' or '; Latin: ''Ionas'' Ben (Hebrew), son of Amittai, is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, from Gath-hepher of the northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria ...

, ''Invisible Influence'' * Robert Tercek, ''Vaporized'' * Catarina Katzer, ''Cyberpsychologie'' * Jamal Qaiser, ''Der fremde Erfolgsfaktor'' 2015 * Peter H. Diamandis,

Steven Kotler Steven Kotler is an American author, journalist, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his non-fiction books, including Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Abundance'', ''A Small Furry Prayer'', ''West of Jesus'', ''Bold: How to Go B ...

, ''Bold'' *

Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari ( he, יובל נח הררי ; born 1976) is an Israeli historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers '' Sapiens: A Brief History ...

, '' Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'' * Thomas Mayer, ''Die neue Ordnung des Geldes'' *Michael Steinbrecher, Rolf Schumann, ''Update'' 2014 *Christopher Surdak, ''Data Crush'' *

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 laude ...

, '' The Frackers'' * Pero Mićic, ''Warum wir uns täglich die Zukunft versauen'' *Christian Felber, ''Geld'' 2013 *

Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books ''The Third Chimpanzee'' (1991); ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); ...

, ''

The World Until Yesterday ''The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?'' is a 2012 popular science book by American intellectual Jared Diamond. It explores what people living in the Western world can learn from traditional societies, includi ...

'' *

Nate Silver Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician, writer, and poker player who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics), basketball, and elections (see psephology). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of ''FiveThirtyEight' ...

, ''

The Signal and the Noise ''The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – but Some Don't'' (alternatively stylized as ''The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't'') is a 2012 book by Nate Silver detailing the art of using ...

'' * Reinhard K. Sprenger, ''Radikal führen'' *Thomas Fricke, ''Wie viel Bank braucht der Mensch?'' 2012 *Detlev S. Schlichter, ''Paper Money Collapse'' *

David Weinberger David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American author, technologist, and speaker. Trained as a philosopher, Weinberger's work focuses on how technology — particularly the internet and machine learning — is changing our ideas, with books about the ...

, ''Too Big to Know'' *Josef Braml, ''Der amerikanische Patient'' *Uli Burchardt, ''Ausgegeizt'' 2011 *

Tom Devine Sir Thomas Martin Devine (born 30 July 1945) is a Scottish academic and author, who specializes in the history of Scotland. He is known for his overviews of modern Scottish history. He is an advocate of the total history approach to the hi ...

, Tarek F. Maassarani, ''The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide'' * Ian Morris, ''

Why the West Rules—For Now ''Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future'' is a history book by a British historian Ian Morris, published in 2010. Content The book compares East and West across the last 15,000 years, arguin ...

'' *Manfred Hoefle, ''Managerismus'' *Tobias Schrödel, ''Hacking for Manager'' 2010 * David Rhodes, Daniel Stelter, ''Accelerating out of the Great Recession'' *

Peter Schiff Peter David Schiff (; born March 23, 1963) is an American stock broker, financial commentator, and radio personality. He is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut. He is also ...

, Andrew Schiff, ''How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes'' *Susanne Schmidt, ''Markt ohne Moral'' *

Meinhard Miegel Meinhard Miegel (born 23 April 1939 in Vienna) is a German political scientist. He is known for his work on the conditions of the economy and society. He co-founded the Institut für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft with Kurt Biedenkopf in 1977, and ...

, ''Exit'' 2009 *

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. ...

Robert Shiller Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American economist, academic, and author. As of 2019, he serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center fo ...

, '' Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism'' *

Niall Ferguson Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (; born 18 April 1964)Biography
Niall Ferguson

, ''

The Ascent of Money ''The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World'' is a 2008 book by then-Harvard professor Niall Ferguson, and an adapted television documentary for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS (US), which in 2009 won an International Emmy Award. It examines th ...

'' *

Miriam Meckel Miriam Meckel (born 18 July 1967) is a German journalist and professor for Corporate Communication, editor and publisher of the German magazine ''Wirtschaftswoche'' and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the Unive ...

, Christian Fieseler, Christian Hoffmann, ''Verkauft und nichts verraten'' *Ludwig Siegele, Joachim Zepelin, ''Matrix der Welt'' 2008 *

Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell (; born June 30, 1930) is an American author, economist, political commentator and academic who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he becam ...

, ''Economic Facts and Fallacies'' * Bill Bonner,

Lila Rajiva Lila Rajiva is an American writer. She has undergraduate degrees in economics and English as well as a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University, where she did doctoral work in international relations and political philosophy. She has taught a ...

, ''Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets'' *Wolfgang Münchau, ''Vorbeben'' *Uwe Jean Heuser, ''Humanomics'' 2007 *

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist whose work concerns problems of randomness, ...

, '' The Black Swan'' * Phil Rosenzweig, '' The Halo Effect'' *

Norbert Häring Norbert Häring is an economist and business journalist. Since 2002 he has reported on finance and economics for the German business newspaper ''Handelsblatt''. Life He is the author (with Olaf Storbeck) of the book ''Ökonomie 2.0'' which was a ...

, Olaf Storbeck, ''Ökonomie 2.0'' *Anja Förster, Peter Kreuz, ''Alles, außer gewöhnlich'' 2006 *

Chris Anderson Chris Anderson may refer to: Sports * Chris Anderson (baseball) (born 1992), American baseball player * Chris Anderson (cheese roller), 22-time winner of annual cheese rolling * Chris Anderson (footballer, born 1925) (1925–1986), Scottish footb ...

, ''The Long Tail'' * Eugene O'Kelly, ''Chasing Daylight'' * Gunter Dueck, ''Lean Brain Management'' *Niels Pfläging, ''Führen mit flexiblen Zielen'' 2005 *

W. Chan Kim W. Chan Kim (; born 1951) is a South Korean business theorist. He is a Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, and co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau, France. He is known as co-author of the 2005 book ...

Renée Mauborgne Renée Mauborgne (born 1963) is an American economist and business theorist. She is a professor of strategy at INSEAD, a business school based in France. Mauborgne is also the co-director of the Fontainebleau-based INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Insti ...

, ''

Blue Ocean Strategy ''Blue Ocean Strategy'' is a book published in 2004 written by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD, and the name of the marketing theory detailed on the book. They assert that these strategic moves create a leap in value for ...

'' *

Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 1996. He has published seven books: '' The Tipping Point: How Little T ...

, '' Blink!'' *Ulrich Hemel, ''Wert und Werte'' *

Peter Sloterdijk Peter Sloterdijk (; ; born 26 June 1947) is a German philosopher and cultural theorist. He is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe. He co-hosted the German television show ''Im Glashaus: Das Phi ...

, ''Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals'' 2004 *

Benoît Mandelbrot Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of phy ...

, ''The (Mis)behavior of Markets'' *

Oskar Negt Oskar Reinhard Negt (; born 1 August 1934 in Kapkeim, East Prussia) is a philosopher and critical social theorist. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Leibniz University Hannover, and one of Germany's most prominent social scientists. ...

, ''Wozu noch Gewerkschaften?'' *

Alain de Botton Alain de Botton (; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and philosopher. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published ''Essays in Love'' (1993), w ...

, ''

Status Anxiety ''Status Anxiety'' is a nonfiction book by Alain de Botton. It was first published in 2004 by Hamish Hamilton; subsequent publications have been by Penguin Books. Central thesis Status Anxiety is a 21st-century phenomenon which is a result of ca ...

'' *Thomas Ramge, ''Die Flicks'' 2003 *

, ''The New Financial Order'' *Paul Glen, ''Leading Geeks''GetAbstract International Book Award mentioned multiple times by John Wiley
(leading business and academic publisher) *

Burkhard Spinnen Burkhard Spinnen (born December 28, 1956 in Mönchengladbach) is a German author. Education and early life Spinnen grew up in Mönchengladbach as the only child of Willy and Cornelia Spinnen. After completing his secondary education and his mil ...

, ''Der schwarze Grat'' *

Hans-Werner Sinn Hans-Werner Sinn (born 7 March 1948) is a German economist who served as President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research from 1999 to 2016. He currently serves on the German economy ministry’s advisory council. He is Professor Emeritus ...

, ''Ist Deutschland noch zu retten?'' 2002 *Kenneth Cloke, Joan Goldsmith,
The End of Management
' *

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the Joh ...

, ''

Globalization and Its Discontents ''Globalization and Its Discontents'' is a book published in 2002 by the 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz. The title is a reference to Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. The book draws on Stiglitz's personal experience as chairman ...

'' * Werner G. Seifert, Markus Habbel, Frank Mattern, Clara C. Streit,

Hans-Joachim Voth Hans-Joachim Voth (born March 31, 1968) is a German economic historian. He joined the University of Zurich economics faculty in 2014 and has been the Scientific Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society since 2017. Early life and educati ...

: ''Performance ist kein Schicksal'' *

Bjørn Lomborg Bjørn Lomborg (; born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internatio ...

, ''Apocalypse No!'' 2001 * Howard Means, ''Money and Power'' * Benjamin Mark Cole,''The Pied Pipers of Wall Street'' * Rolf W. Habbel, ''Faktor Menschlichkeit'' * Hartmut Knüppel,

Christian Lindner Christian Wolfgang Lindner (born 7 January 1979) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) serving as the Federal Minister of Finance since 8 December 2021. He has been the party leader of the liberal FDP since 2013 and a Memb ...

, ''Die Aktie als Marke''

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