Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year shortlist announced
Thomas Piketty‘s Capital faces off against Pixar founder Ed Catmull‘s Creativity Inc and a wide range of other books as this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year is announced. PLUS – there’s a chance to win signed copies of the shortlist and a year’s subscription to FT.com.
Thomas Piketty and Ed Catmull who have both been nominated for this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. (©Emmanuelle Marchadour and Deborah Coleman respectively)
Thomas Piketty‘s ground-breaking bestseller leads a diverse shortlist for this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year.
Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century has been a surprise bestseller which Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman a “magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality”. This year there is only one other title on the shortlist, House of Debt by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, which overtly tackles economics – in particular the recession and economic down-turn.
Showing the prize’s continuing relevance in its tenth year, this year’s shortlist acknowledges the growing concern over privacy with the inclusion of investigative journalist Julia Angwin‘s Dragnet Nation, as well as Nick Davies definitive account of the News of the World hacking scandal – Hack Attack.
Counterbalancing this are two profoundly optimistic books which celebrate the impact of technology on our work and leisure lives. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee‘s The Second Machine Age argues that technology holds the key to a better economic future whilst Pixar founder Ed Catmull shares his insight into how technology, creativity and business can work together in perfect harmony.
Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, praised the shortlisted titles for their “originality, depth of research and lively writing,” whilst Dominic Barton, of co-sponsor McKinsey & Company, called the selection “as inspiring as it is enlightening.”
The overall winner, who will receive £30,000, will be announced at an event in London on 11th November. Each runner-up shortlisted author will take home £10,000.
The Shortlist in full
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
by Julia Angwin, Times Books/Henry Holt
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, W. W. Norton Ltd
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull, Bantam Press/Transworld Publishers (UK), Random House (US)
Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch
by Nick Davies, Chatto & Windus (UK), Faber & Faber (US)
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, University of Chicago Press
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press/Harvard University Press
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