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The shortlist for the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award has been announced.
The titles chosen are: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Has Shaped the World from Prehistory to the Present by William Bernstein (Atlantic Books); Cold Steel: Britain’s Richest Man and The Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Industry by Tim Bouquet/Byron Ousey (Little, Brown); When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian (McGraw-Hill); McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers by Misha Glenny (Random House); Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig (Penguin Press); The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (Bloomsbury).
The annual award is intended to “identify the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics”. Each shortlisted author receives £5,000 with the winner awarded £30,000.
The winner will be announced on October 14 in New York.