FT Business Book of the Year
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Winner
2022
Chip War
Chris Miller
Winner
2019
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
Winner
2016
The Man Who Knew
Sebastian Mallaby
Winner
2015
The Rise of the Robots
Martin Ford
Winner
2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Winner
2011
Poor Economics
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Winner
2010
Fault Lines
Raghuram Rajan
Winner
2009
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
Winner
2008
When Markets Collide
Mohamed El-Erian
Winner
2005
The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
Shortlist
2022
Dead in the Water
Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Shortlist
2022
Disorder
Helen Thompson
Shortlist
2022
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Gary Gerstle
Shortlist
2021
The Aristocracy of Talent
Adrian Wooldridge
Shortlist
2020
Deaths of Despair
Angus Deaton, Anne Case
Shortlist
2020
Reimagining Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson
Shortlist
2019
Kochland
Christopher Leonard
Shortlist
2019
The Third Pillar
Raghuram Rajan
Shortlist
2018
Capitalism in America
Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge
Shortlist
2018
Give People Money
Annie Lowrey
Shortlist
2018
The Value of Everything
Mariana Mazzucato
Shortlist
2017
Adaptive Markets
Andrew Lo
Shortlist
2017
The Great Leveler
Walter Scheidel
Shortlist
2016
The 100-Year Life
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
Shortlist
2016
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert Gordon
Shortlist
2015
Misbehaving
Richard Thaler
Shortlist
2014
House of Debt
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
Shortlist
2014
The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Shortlist
2013
The Alchemists
Neil Irwin
Shortlist
2012
Volcker
William Silber
Shortlist
2012
What Money Can't Buy
Michael Sandel
Shortlist
2012
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
Shortlist
2011
Exorbitant Privilege
Barry Eichengreen
Shortlist
2011
Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser
Shortlist
2011
Wilful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan
Shortlist
2009
Animal Spirits
George Akerlof, Robert Shiller
Shortlist
2009
In Fed We Trust
David Wessel
Shortlist
2008
A Splendid Exchange
William Bernstein
Shortlist
2008
Remix
Lawrence Lessig
Shortlist
2007
Immigrants
Philippe Legrain
Shortlist
2007
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Shortlist
2007
Wikinomics
Don Tapscott, Anthony Williams
Shortlist
2005
Freakonomics
Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
Shortlist
2005
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Pietra Rivoli
Longlist
2023
Beijing Rules
Bethany Allen
Longlist
2023
Power and Progress
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
Longlist
2022
Direct
Kathryn Judge
Longlist
2022
Slouching Towards Utopia
J. Bradford DeLong
Longlist
2021
Innovation In Real Places
Dan Breznitz
Longlist
2021
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein
Longlist
2021
What We Owe Each Other
Minouche Shafik
Longlist
2020
Radical Uncertainty
John Kay, Mervyn King
Longlist
2020
The Double X Economy
Linda Scott
Longlist
2020
Trade Wars Are Class Wars
Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
Longlist
2019
Big Business
Tyler Cowen
Longlist
2019
Extreme Economies
Richard Davies
Longlist
2019
Firefighting
Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson Jr
Longlist
2019
The Anxious Triumph
Donald Sassoon
Longlist
2018
Crashed
Adam Tooze
Longlist
2018
Factfulness
Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Longlist
2018
Fifty Million Rising
Saadia Zahidi
Longlist
2018
Gigged
Sarah Kessler
Longlist
2018
The Bank That Lived a Little
Philip Augar
Longlist
2017
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
Longlist
2017
Economics for the Common Good
Jean Tirole
Longlist
2017
Grave New World
Stephen King
Longlist
2017
Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols
Longlist
2016
Bourgeois Equality
Deirdre McCloskey
Longlist
2016
Success and Luck
Robert Frank
Longlist
2016
The Curse of Cash
Kenneth Rogoff
Longlist
2015
Climate Shock
Gernot Wagner, Martin Weitzman
Longlist
2015
Hall of Mirrors
Barry Eichengreen
Longlist
2015
Phishing for Phools
George Akerlof, Robert Shiller
Longlist
2015
Restart
Mihir Sharma
Longlist
2014
GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
Diane Coyle
Longlist
2013
After the Music Stopped
Alan Blinder
Longlist
2013
Give and Take
Adam Grant
Longlist
2013
Scarcity
Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
Longlist
2013
The End of Competitive Advantage
Rita Gunther McGrath
Longlist
2013
The Great Escape
Angus Deaton
Longlist
2012
A Capitalism for the People
Luigi Zingales
Longlist
2012
Breakout Nations
Ruchir Sharma
Longlist
2012
Paper Promises
Philip Coggan
Longlist
2011
Grand Pursuit
Sylvia Nasar
Longlist
2011
That Used To Be Us
Thomas Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
Longlist
2011
The Next Convergence
Michael Spence
Longlist
2010
How Markets Fail
John Cassidy
Longlist
2010
MacroWikinomics
Don Tapscott, Anthony Williams
Longlist
2010
The End of the Free Market
Ian Bremmer
Longlist
2010
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
Longlist
2009
Free
Chris Anderson
Longlist
2009
The Myth of the Rational Market
Justin Fox
Longlist
2009
This Time is Different
Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
Longlist
2008
Common Wealth
Jeffrey Sachs
Longlist
2008
Nudge
Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
Longlist
2008
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
Charles Morris
Longlist
2007
Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great For The Economy
Daniel Gross
Longlist
2007
Richistan
Robert Frank
Longlist
2006
The Baby Business
Debora Spar
Longlist
2005
Why Most Things Fail
Paul Ormerod