Here are the titles selected for this year’s prestigious Financial Times (FT) and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award longlist:
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics (US and UK), by Richard Thaler
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping Our Future (UK and US), by Ashlee Vance
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman
How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime? (UK and US), by Stephen Witt
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy, by Mihir Sharma
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment (UK and US), by Martin Ford
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses – and Misuses – of History, by Barry Eichengreen
The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World, by Steve LeVine
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry, by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
Digital Gold (UK and US), by Nathaniel Popper
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (US and UK), by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time, by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Black Horse Ride: The Inside Story of Lloyds and the Banking Crisis, by Ivan Fallon
