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The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.
The ₤30,000 ($75,000) Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award was created to highlight books that provide the most compelling and enjoyable insights into modern business issues
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2011
Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty Winner- Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- Exorbitant privilege: the rise and fall of the dollar
- Barry Eichengreen
- Triumph of the city: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and happier
- Edward L. Glaeser
- Willful blindness: why we ignore the obvious at our peril
- Margaret Heffernan
- Good strategy, bad strategy: the difference and why it matters
- Richard Rumelt
- The quest: energy, security, and the remaking of the modern world
- Daniel Yergin
2010
- Fault lines: how hidden fractures still threaten the world economy Winner
- Raghuram Rajan
- The art of choosing
- Sheena Iyengar
- The Facebook effect: the inside story of the company that is connecting the world
- David Kirkpatrick
- The big short: inside the doomsday machine
- Michael Lewis
- More money than God: hedge funds and the making of a new elite
- Sebastian Mallaby
- Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system – and themselves
- Andrew Ross Sorkin
2009
Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world Winner- Liaquat Ahamed
- Good value: reflections on money, morality and an uncertain world
- Stephen Green
- The match king
- Frank Partnoy
- In Fed we trust
- David Wessel
- Imagining India
- Nandan Nilekani
- Animal spirits
- George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
2008
When markets collide: investment strategies for the age of global economic change Winner- Mohamed El-Erian
- A splendid exchange: how trade has shaped the world from prehistory to the present
- William J. Bernstein
- Cold steel: the multi-billion-dollar battle for a global industry
- Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey
- McMafia: crime without frontiers
- Misha Glenny
- Remix: making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
- Lawrence Lessig
- The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life
- Alice Schroeder
2007
The last tycoons: the secret history of Lazard Frères & Co. Winner- William D. Cohan
- The age of turbulence: adventures in a new world
- Alan Greenspan
- The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Immigrants: your country needs them
- Philippe Legrain
- Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything
- Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams
- Zoom: the global race to fuel the car of the future
- Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
2006
China shakes the world Winner- James Kynge
- The long tail
- Chris Anderson
- Small giants
- Bo Burlingham
- The Wal-Mart effect
- Charles Fishman
- The box
- Marc Levinson
2005
The world is flat Winner - Thomas Friedman
- The search: how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture
- John Battelle
- Freakonomics
- Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- The travels of a T-Shirt in the global economy
- Pietra Rivoli
- DisneyWar
- James Stewart
- Fast second: how smart companies bypass radical innovation to enter and dominate new markets
- Constantinos C. Markides and Paul Geroski
