Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
Financial Times, in partnership with Schroders
An annual prize awarded to the book judged to provide 'the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues', covering business, finance, economics, and management topics.
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2025
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- Abundance: How We Build a Better FutureShortlisted
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
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House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company
Eva Dou
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How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
Carl Benedikt Frey
2024
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Growth: A Reckoning
Daniel Susskind
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
John Kay
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The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives
Andrew Scott
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Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
Michael Morris
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Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff
2023
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- Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo powers our livesShortlisted
Siddharth Kara
- Elon MuskShortlisted
Walter Isaacson
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How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration and everything in between
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
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Material World: A substantial story of our past and future
Ed Conway
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The Coming Wave: AI, power, and the 21st century's greatest dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar
2022
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- Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive IndustryShortlisted
Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
- Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st CenturyShortlisted
Helen Thompson
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Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
Lulu Chen
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The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
Sebastian Mallaby
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
Gary Gerstle
2021
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- Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler DynastyShortlisted
Patrick Radden Keefe
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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Adrian Wooldridge
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The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations
Robert Livingston
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
Michael E. Mann
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The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
2020
- No Filter: The Inside Story of InstagramWon
Sarah Frier
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- Deaths of Despair and the Future of CapitalismShortlisted
Anne Case and Angus Deaton
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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Rebecca M. Henderson
2019
- Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for MenWon
Caroline Criado-Perez
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Christopher Leonard
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman
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The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World
Raghuram Rajan
2018
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley StartupWon
John Carreyrou
- Capitalism in America: A HistoryShortlisted
Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge
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Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Annie Lowrey
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New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You
Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
James Crabtree
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The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy
Mariana Mazzucato
2017
- Janesville: An American StoryWon
Amy Goldstein
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Ellen Pao
- The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First CenturyShortlisted
Walter Scheidel
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
Brian Merchant
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The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
David Enrich
2016
- The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan GreenspanWon
Sebastian Mallaby
- Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma BuiltShortlisted
Duncan Clark
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
Rana Foroohar
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The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil WarShortlisted
Robert J. Gordon
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What Works: Gender Equality by Design
Iris Bohnet
2015
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- Digital Gold: The Untold Story of BitcoinShortlisted
Nathaniel Popper
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How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?
Stephen Witt
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Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry
Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
Richard Thaler
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Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
Anne-Marie Slaughter
2014
- Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyWon
Thomas Piketty
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- Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless SurveillanceShortlisted
Julia Angwin
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Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
Nick Davies
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
2013
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- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and ThinkShortlisted
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
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Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
Iain Martin
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The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers
Neil Irwin
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The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund
Anita Raghavan
2012
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Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Walter Isaacson
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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
John M. Coates
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Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence
William L. Silber
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets
Michael J. Sandel
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
2011
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global PovertyWon
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary SystemShortlisted
Barry Eichengreen
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Richard Rumelt
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Edward Glaeser
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Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
Margaret Heffernan
2010
- Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World EconomyWon
Raghuram G. Rajan
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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby
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The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachineShortlisted
Michael Lewis
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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
David Kirkpatrick
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and ThemselvesShortlisted
Andrew Ross Sorkin
2009
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the WorldWon
Liaquat Ahamed
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global CapitalismShortlisted
George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
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Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World
Stephen Green
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Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation
Nandan Nilekani
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In Fed We Trust
David Wessel
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The Match King
Frank Partnoy
2008
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- A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the WorldShortlisted
William J. Bernstein
- Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global IndustryShortlisted
Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey
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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Misha Glenny
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Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Lawrence Lessig
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
2007
- The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.Won
William D. Cohan
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Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Philippe Legrain
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Alan Greenspan
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
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ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran
2006
- China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future – and the Challenge for AmericaWon
James Kynge
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Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Bo Burlingham
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson
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The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Charles Fishman
2005
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- DisneyWarShortlisted
James B. Stewart
- Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New MarketsShortlisted
Constantinos C. Markides, Paul Geroski
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
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The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
John Battelle
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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade
Pietra Rivoli