Shortlist for Business Book of the Year

Thursday 17 September 2009: The shortlist for the fifth annual Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (www.ft.com/bookaward) was announced today.

The 2009 shortlist is:

• Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller (Princeton University Press)

• Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World by Stephen Green (Allen Lane UK, Grove/Atlantic USA)

• Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century by Nandan Nilekani (Allen Lane UK, The Penguin Press USA)

• In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic by David Wessel (Crown Business)

• Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (William Heineman/Random House UK, The Penguin Press USA)

• The Match King: Ivar Kreuger and the Financial Scandal of the Century by Frank Partnoy (Profile Books UK, Public Affairs USA)

The judges - Lionel Barber, Lloyd C. Blankfein, Mario Monti, Helen Alexander, Lynda Gratton and Alexander S. Friedman - decided on the six books which, in their opinion, provided ‘the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.’

The winning author will receive £30,000 and the other five shortlisted authors will each receive £5,000.

The overall winner of the 2009 Book Award will be announced at an Award Dinner at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on 29th October.

The Rt Hon Lord Mandelson, UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills, will be the keynote speaker at this event.