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Update: Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed has won the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The ”beautifully written” history of how central bankers’ mistakes led to the Great Depression bowled over the judges and swept away a strong field of finalists to take the £30,000 prize. The prize was awarded on October 29 at a special dinner at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum
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The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2009 prize aims to identify the book providing ”the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics”.
Previous winners of the Business Book of the Year prize include When Markets Collide, The Last Tycoons, and China Shakes the World.
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Transcripts
The making of Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed explains how he went about writing the book
Today’s crisis and the Great Depression
This year’s winning author talks to Andrew Hill
Book Review
The great liquidity crisis – 94 years ago
A timely story on what can go wrong in the capitalist system, says Niall Ferguson
The 2009 award
Echoes from history
There is a forceful lesson in Lords of Finance
A selection of excerpts from the finalists
Read extracts from the six titles shortlisted for this year’s award
The shortlist: Reading past and present financial runes
The six books together sum up what went wrong in the crisis
2009 long list
Fifteen titles have been longlisted for the award
New judges announced
Experts from academia and the world of philanthropy have joined the judging panel
Audio: Business book award roundtable
A distinguished panel discuss: “Is a financial crisis the best or worst time to publish a business book?”
FT Bookshop
Buy the books featured in the competition
Previous awards
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, 2007
The Last Tycoons, a vivid account of the tumultuous evolution of investment bank Lazard, narrowly beat Alan Greenspan’s Turbulence to win
Award winner, 2006
James Kynge’s China Shakes the World won in 2006
Award winner, 2005
Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat won the inaugural award in 2005
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