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The search for the most compelling and enjoyable business book of 2010 is under way. This year, the winner of the award will receive £30,000, while the prize money for other finalists has doubled from £5,000 to £10,000.
Now in its sixth year, the Business Book of the Year Award is firmly established as a feature of the business and publishing calendars. This year’s awards ceremony and dinner – attended by top names from the worlds of finance, economics, business, media and publishing – will take place in New York on October 27, 2010.
The closing date for submissions was June 30, 2010.
Last year’s winner, Liaquat Ahamed, went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his book Lords of Finance, about the central bankers whose mistakes helped tip the world into the Great Depression.
The judging panel is co-chaired by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, and Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of
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Previous awards
Award Winner, 2009
The ”beautifully written” Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed, on the history of how central bankers’ mistakes led to the Great Depression, bowled over the judges to take the 2009 award
Award winner, 2006
James Kynge’s China Shakes the World won in 2006
Award Winner, 2008
The 2008 winner was Mohamed El-Erian for When Markets Collide. Mr El-Erian, is a co-chief executive of PIMCO, the world’s biggest bond fund manager
Award winner, 2005
Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat won the inaugural award in 2005
Award Winner, 2007
The Last Tycoons, a vivid account of the tumultuous evolution of investment bank Lazard, narrowly beat Alan Greenspan’s Turbulence to win
