Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024
Each year journalists from the Financial Times comb through hundreds of submissions to select the best business books of the year. This year’s winner is a timely investigation into the rivalry between the founders of Open AI and Google DeepMind. Other honored books include a proposal for improving human longevity and an enlightening look at the role of economic growth (and degrowth). Note: The longlisted book, The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies is currently not available in the US.
15 books
WINNER
Financial Times & roula khalaf
Supremacy: Ai, Chatgpt, and the Race That Will Change the World
Parmy Olson"Parmy Olson’s Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that will Change the World, published next month, recounts the battle between OpenAI’s Sam Altman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis to develop the world-changing technology of generative AI, while also grappling with the ethical and commercial imperatives set by their respective backers at Microsoft and Google." – FT
Financial Times & roula khalafHardcover, 2024
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ShortlistedFinancial Times
Growth: A History and a Reckoning
Daniel Susskind"In Growth: A Reckoning, Daniel Susskind, whose timely book A World Without Work made the 2020 shortlist, turns his attention to the question of how to resolve the tension between the quest for growth at all costs — creating inequality and environmental damage — and the need to preserve what we value." – FT
Financial TimesHardcover, 2024
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Shortlisted
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong
John Kay"Economist John Kay’s The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong is a profound analysis of how the world of digital products and services is challenging the traditional view of the company. The book, out in late August, examines the future of what was once the pre-eminent organisational unit of capitalism, and how it and the wider economy are managed." – FT
Hardcover, 2025
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Shortlisted
The Longevity Imperative: How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives
Andrew J. Scott"Andrew Scott returns to the question of how to cope with, and benefit from, improved life expectancy in The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives. Scott — co-author with Lynda Gratton of 2016 finalist The 100-Year Life — proposes ways to pursue an “evergreen agenda” that should help us to live sustainably and healthily for longer." – FT
Hardcover, 2024
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Shortlisted
Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
Michael Morris"In Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together, to be published in October, psychologist Michael Morris takes a deep and well-timed look at how leaders in business and politics can harness innate tribal instincts to positive effect, rather than allowing them to divide." – FT
Hardcover, 2024
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Shortlisted
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Raj M. Shah"Entrepreneur Raj Shah and technology strategist Christopher Kirchhoff tell the story of how they and others have shaken up US defence procurement in Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War. Shah and Kirchhoff turned to start-ups to revolutionise the way the US military is supplied and how war is fought." – FT
Hardcover, 2024
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Longlisted
Publishers Weekly
The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Dana Mattioli"In The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power, Dana Mattioli takes a critical look at the influence of the dominant ecommerce and cloud computing company. Her book — echoing the title of Brad Stone’s The Everything Store (which won the award in 2013) — asks whether the group has become too big for regulators to stop." – FT
Publishers WeeklyHardcover, 2024
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Longlisted
The Trading Game: A Confession
Gary Stevenson"The Trading Game: A Confession is Gary Stevenson’s vivid account of his time as a Citigroup swaps trader and the consequence. He made huge sums for his employer — and for himself — but also set himself on a path to burnout and the opposite of the freedom he had expected financial success to provide." – FT
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Longlisted
Sarah Jackson & Financial Times
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
Anupreeta Das"Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King: The Hidden Truth About Bill Gates and His Power to Shape Our World, by Anupreeta Das, published this month, takes a close and unflinching look at one of the world’s richest men in an attempt to disentangle Gates’ multiple complex interests and relationships, while at the same time exploring our obsession with billionaires." – FT
Sarah Jackson & Financial TimesHardcover, 2024
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Longlisted
Tej Parikh
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
Ernest Scheyder"The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder, goes to the heart of the dilemmas facing those who want to accelerate the shift to a more sustainable economy. Scheyder examines how the quest to mine critical minerals is setting policymakers, manufacturers, ecologists and scientists against each other." – FT
Tej ParikhHardcover, 2024
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