FT Business Book of the Year
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All the books longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
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History
Winner
2022
Chip War
Chris Miller
Winner
2016
The Man Who Knew
Sebastian Mallaby
Winner
2012
Private Empire
Steve Coll
Winner
2009
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
Winner
2007
The Last Tycoons
William Cohan
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
If Then
Jill Lepore
Shortlist
2018
Capitalism in America
Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge
Shortlist
2017
The Great Leveler
Walter Scheidel
Shortlist
2016
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert Gordon
Shortlist
2012
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
Shortlist
2009
The Match King
Frank Partnoy
Shortlist
2008
A Splendid Exchange
William Bernstein
Shortlist
2006
The Box
Marc Levinson
Longlist
2023
Blood in the Machine
Brian Merchant
Longlist
2023
Power and Progress
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
Longlist
2022
Slouching Towards Utopia
J. Bradford DeLong
Longlist
2020
Money for Nothing
Thomas Levenson
Longlist
2020
Radical Uncertainty
John Kay, Mervyn King
Longlist
2019
Make, Think, Imagine
John Browne
Longlist
2019
The Anxious Triumph
Donald Sassoon
Longlist
2016
Age of Discovery
Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna
Longlist
2016
Bourgeois Equality
Deirdre McCloskey
Longlist
2016
The Profiteers
Sally Denton
Longlist
2015
Hall of Mirrors
Barry Eichengreen
Longlist
2014
Sons of Wichita
Daniel Schulman
Longlist
2014
The Boom
Russell Gold
Longlist
2014
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
Longlist
2011
Grand Pursuit
Sylvia Nasar
Longlist
2010
The Lords of Strategy
Walter Kiechel
Longlist
2007
The Emerging Markets Century
Antoine van Agtmael
Longlist
2005
Tough Calls
Dick Martin