Six heavyweight books that tackle head on the world’s big economic and management challenges — from the US productivity gap to persistent gender imbalances — feature on the shortlist for the business book of the year.
Judges of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award praised the finalists — who were picked from a longlist of 15 titles — for their range and depth.
The finalists for the £30,000 prize include The Rise and Fall of American Growth by the economist Robert Gordon, which takes issue with the idea that growth will continue unabated, and a forthcoming biography of Alan Greenspan, The Man Who Knew by Sebastian Mallaby.