Business Book of the Year 2022 – The Long List

Rising interest rates, flaring inflation, supply chain disruptions, white-hot post-pandemic labor markets, and a backdrop of geopolitical and environmental crises: new light has been shed on some of the long-listed topics for this year’s Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Current business affairs.

The 15 books culled from nearly 600 records by FT journalists include stories, polemics, investigations and analysis on the challenges facing the global economy and some of the world’s most famous corporate names, from General Electric and Boeing to Tencent and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. Company.

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A number of heavyweight legends are competing for the £30,000 prize. They include the upcoming Jay Bradford DeLonge Leaning towards utopiaEconomic history of the twentieth centuryAnalyzing the years 1870 to 2010, “By the standards of the rest of human history, [this period was] It’s more amazing than scary,” DeLonge wrote. But still, despite the extraordinary increase in material wealth, the “long century” did not meet utopian expectations.

Gary Gerstle from a different perspective The rise and fall of the neoliberal systemAmerica and the world in the free market era It shows how the West embraced “neoliberalism” and the belief in free trade and free markets in the last decades of the 20th century. A wide range of politicians – from Ronald Reagan to the leaders of the New Left – have unleashed the power of capitalism, unleashing some of the unintended consequences that the world is now experiencing.

Helen Thompson had a great time. ImpairmentDifficult times in the 21st century It explores the controversy surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. She weaves the domestic, economic and geopolitical recent history behind energy politics to show how energy still drives some of the most powerful and disruptive political trends.

Another historical angle is taken by Edward Chancellor The value of timeA true story of interestA polemical attack on the credo of low interest rates that has been rampant in recent years. Whether you agree with his motivation or not, his message coincides with efforts by major central banks to use the monetary instrument to curb rising inflation.

Three long-term books explore some of the tensions behind that inflation.

straight aheadThe rise of the middleman economy and the power to go to the source, by Catherine Judge examines the sometimes dangerous development of “powerful medium and long supply chains”, with banks, retailers, real estate agents. The judge explains how the advantages bring about excessive power and bring the case back to direct exchange, which improves accountability and strength.

Chris Miller Chip WarThe fight for the world’s most important technologyIn October, the complex and increasingly fragile network that builds and assembles semiconductors in one of those long supply chains, many digital and electrical products and services, will look directly at the “new oil,” which includes everything from kettles to electric cars and nuclear power plants. , now dependent. The tension surrounding Taiwan has demonstrated global dependence on a few manufacturers.

Labor’s fierce fighting is one contributor to economic stress. From interviews to motivation, TalentHow to identify energizers, innovators and winners around the worldby Tyler Cowen (2019 long-listed b Big business) and Daniel Gross is an extremely practical guide to identifying and recruiting such people, while at the same time ensuring that recruiters cast their net wide enough to match diverse and new teams.

This year’s corporate blockbusters include previous winner William D. Cohan, who took home the award in 2007. The Last TycoonsAbout Lazard Freres. In the future Power outageThe rise and fall of General ElectricThe once-seemingly invincible clamor for America’s industrial and corporate sector endures the conglomerate’s extraordinary reputation and financial collapse. Cohan himself called it “a misguided corporate myth about hubris, blind ambition and the limits of belief — and trying to live up to it.”

Peter Robison joined another American corporate icon – Boeing Flying blindThe 737 Max disaster and the failure of Boeing. In the year The story of the 2018 and 2019 deaths of two 737 Max 8 jetliners is a story of tension between profit motivation and engineering quality — a result in part of Boeing being effectively led by former GE CEO Jack Welch.

On the other side of the world, the rise of Tencent, the developer of the Chinese “everything app” WeChat, is the subject of Lulu Yilun Chen. Influence the empireThe story of Tencent and China’s tech ambitions. She follows the work of the founder, media shy programmer Pony Ma. In addition to his role in contemporary Chinese politics and politics, Chen explains how he and his inventions fit into China’s technological and entrepreneurial revolution.

Another previous winner is Sebastian Malaby (Alan Greenspan’s biography Someone who knowswon in 2016) appears another in the long list Law of power: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption. It is digging deep into the roots of the venture capital industry that underpins the growth of Silicon Valley. “Did VCs create the success or just show up for it?” Malaby asked. He tried to answer that question.

UK venture capitalist Kate Bingham is the co-author of another long-listed book. Long shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate BritainWith Tim Hams to be published in October. Bingham’s experience brings readers into the middle of the fight against the coronavirus after the government quickly installed her as head of the UK’s vaccine task force. Under her, she made a bold and successful bet on the development of the first vaccines when she was criticized and under intense pressure.

A tasteful look at UK entrepreneur Nous was taken by Oliver Bullough Butler to the worldHow Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, cryptocrats and criminals.A poignant look at how the post-imperial nation has deployed its institutions to serve the corrupt super-rich. Bullough’s colorful argument is that London isn’t just laundering bad people’s dirty money, it’s allowing them to make the most of it by flouting the rules.

The central story Dead in the waterMurder and fraud in the world’s most secretive industryProduced by Matthew Campbell and Keith Chell, the dramatic court battle in London is set in 2011 when the tanker Brillante Virtuso was attacked by militants and caught fire near Aden, Yemen. Rather than a layman, Campbell and Chell use emerging courtroom revelations about fraud and unsolved murders to illuminate her role in UK shipping finance.

Finally, Gaia Vince is about to be published. Nomadic centuryHow to save climate change It paints a bleak picture of the threat posed by unavoidable climate change, but outlines radical solutions that include migration to the northern and southern hemispheres. Vince lays out how governments, businesses and individuals can – and must – prepare for this “species emergency” if they are to lay the groundwork for the planet’s recovery.

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The winner of the £30,000 prize will be a book that offers “the most compelling and interesting insight” into business issues. The shortlisted titles will each receive £10,000. The list of six titles will be announced live via Twitter on September 22. The winner of the award and the winner of the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize (for a business book proposal by an author under 35) will be announced in December. 5. Read more about the award at www.ft.com/bookaward. The award was See the full interactive list of all books longlisted since its inception in 2005 https://ig.ft.com/sites/business-book-award/.