The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year prize aims to identify the book providing ”the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics”.

2008 Business Book of the Year Award: Winner announced

The winner is Mohamed El-Erian for When Markets Collide. Mr El-Erian is a co-chief executive of PIMCO, the world’s biggest bond fund manager.

While most pundits dismiss conflicting messages about the economy and the markets as ‘noise’, Mr El-Erian argues that they signal deep, structural changes and realignments that are radically redefining the investment game. When Markets Collide brings readers up to speed on the new economic and investing landscape. Read the preface here.

Listen here to his interview with Andrew Hill, FT City editor, or read the resulting article.

Watch his video interview with the FT’s John Gapper here.

Previous winners of the Business Book of the Year prize include The Last Tycoons, China Shakes the World and The World is Flat.

Online reader competition

In conjunction with the book prize, we ran an online competition to find the best suggestion for possible future business books. The winner was Patricia Yau for Under the Floorboards: The Guide to Alternative Investments. Patricia won copies of the six shortlisted titles. An article on the best of the rest is here. All entries can be read here.

The shortlist

A Splendid Exchange (William J Bernstein)	Cold Steel (T Bouquet & B Ousey)	McMafia (Misha Glenny)	Remix (Lawrence Lessig)	The Snowball (Alice Schroeder)	When Markets Collide (Mohamed El-Erian)

The panel

Helen Alexander	Lionel Barber	Lloyd C. Blankfein	Niall Ferguson	Sung Joo Kim	Mario Monti

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Press Releases

Winner announced

Mohamed El-Erian is the winner of the FT-Goldman Sachs Book Award for his title, When Markets Collide

Shortlist announced

Six shortlisted books announced for the Business Book of the Year Award

Judging panel announced

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs today announced the new panel of judges for the 2008 Business Book of the Year

Samuel Palmisano to keynote

Samuel Palmisano to be keynote speaker at the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, 2008

Previous awards

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