The longlist for the Award (www.ft.com/bookaward) was announced today, marking the first public release of the longlist for this prestigious Award that aims to identify the book providing the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.
The books on the longlist are:
Animal Spirits
George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller (Princeton University Press)
Clever
Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones (Harvard Business Press)
Free
Chris Anderson (Random House UK, Hyperion Books USA)
Good Value
Stephen Green (Penguin Press UK, Grove/Atlantic USA)
House of Cards
William D. Cohan (Penguin Press UK, Doubleday USA)
How the Mighty Fall
Jim Collins (Random House UK, HarperCollins USA)
Imagining India
Nandan Nilekani (Allen Lane UK, Penguin USA)
In Fed We Trust
David Wessel (Crown Business)
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed (Cornerstone, Random House UK, Penguin Press USA)
The Match King
Frank Partnoy (Profile Books UK, Public Affairs USA)
The Myth of the Rational Market
Justin Fox (HarperCollins)
SuperCorp
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Profile Books UK, Random House USA)
This Time is Different
Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff (Princeton University Press)
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
Tristram Stuart (Penguin Press UK, WW Norton & Co USA )
Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Jeff Rubin (Virgin Books UK, Random House USA)
A shortlist of six books determined by this year’s Award judging panel will be announced on 17th September. The overall winner of the 2009 Book Award will be announced at a gala dinner at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on 29th October. The winning author will receive £30,000 and the other five shortlisted authors will each receive £5,000.
The judging panel for the 2009 Award is:
- Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times
- Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
- Mario Monti, President of the Bocconi University of Milan and the first Chairman of Bruegel
- Helen Alexander, President, CBI
- Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business School
- Alexander S. Friedman, Chief Financial Officer, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Award is designed to highlight the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics. Entries were invited from publishers of business books in the English language that were first published between 31st October 2008 and 1st November 2009.
