The FT / Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

The ₤30,000 ($75,000) Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award was created to highlight books that provide "the most compelling and enjoyable insights into modern business issues".

2008

When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change Winner

Mohamed El-Erian, McGraw-Hill

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Has Shaped the World from Prehistory to the Present

William J Bernstein, Atlantic Books

Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry

Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey, Little Brown Book Group

McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers

Misha Glenny, Random House

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

Lawrence Lessig, The Penguin Press

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Alice Schroeder, Bloomsbury Publishing

2007

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co Winner

William D Cohan

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Alan Greenspan

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

Philippe Legrain

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams

Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

Iain Carson and Vijay V Vaitheeswaran

2006

China Shakes the World Winner

James Kynge

The Long Tail

Chris Anderson

Small Giants

Bo Burlingham

The Wal-Mart Effect

Charles Fishman

The Box

Marc Levinson

2005

The World is Flat Winner

Thomas Friedman

The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture

John Battelle

Freakonomics

Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

Pietra Rivoli

DisneyWar

James Stewart

Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and dominate New Markets

Constantinos C. Markides and Paul Geroski