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The search is now on for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. From the official announcement:
This annual Award, promoted by the Financial Times Limited and the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. aims to identify the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics.
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A few of us just returned from this year's Author Pow Wow in Austin, TX at The Driskill. As for me, I'm exhausted, but also refreshed with a sense of perspective. In support of my previous post, I do feel empowered, and I know others that attended do as well.
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(Edited to add: The Author Pow Wow has begun! Follow along on Twitter using hashtag #powwow11)
In a couple of days, some of the 8cr staff will be heading to Austin, TX for our Author Pow Wow. There, we'll be spending a solid day and a half talking with authors and publishing industry professionals about Doing What Works.
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The shortlist for the seventh Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Book of the Year has been released. It includes:
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Public Affairs
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen, Oxford University Press
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L.
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Understandably (looking at the award sponsors), the FT/Goldman Sachs Book Award always tends more toward macroeconomics, high finance and big business. But they always seem to pick well, and I always find books I feel the need to revisit when they announce their list.
Just in case you missed the announcement of the the award's longlist as I did, it is:
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster
No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower, Faber & Faber
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V.
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