FT Business Book of the Year Award winner announced

12 November 2014 Books+Publishing

In the UK, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Belknap Press) has won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Piketty’s book, a ‘nearly 700-page exploration of economic processes that concentrate wealth and build inequalities’, was selected for the £30,000 (A$55,000) prize from a shortlist of six. Each shortlisted author will also receive £10,000 (A$19,000). The FT Business Book of the Year Award is presented annually to the book with ‘the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues’.

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