McKinsey Business Book of the Year Longlist

Here's what Andrew Hill had to say on FT.com about the longlist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year (#BBYA15) which will be announced tomorrow in the Financial Times.

  

The longlist comprises:

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller (Princeton University Press)

Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses - and Misuses - of History by Barry Eichengreen (Oxford University Press)

Black Horse Ride: The Inside Story of Lloyds and the Banking Crisis by Ivan Fallon (The Robson Press/Biteback Publishing)

The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford (Oneworld Publications; Basic Books)

The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World by Steve LeVine (Viking)

Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff (Flatiron/Macmillan)

Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer (HarperBusiness/HarperCollins)

Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin by Nathaniel Popper (Allen Lane/Penguin Press; Harper/ HarperCollins)

Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy by Mihir Sharma (Vintage Books/Random House India)

Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Oneworld Publications; Random House)

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner (Random House Books; Crown Publishers/ Penguin Random House LLC)

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics by Richard Thaler (Allen Lane/Penguin Press; W. W. Norton)

Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping Our Future by Ashlee Vance (Virgin Books; Ecco)

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman (Princeton University Press)

How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime? by Stephen Witt (The Bodley Head/Penguin Random House; Viking)

The shortlist will be announced 22nd September, and the winner of the award will be announced at a ceremony and dinner in New York on November 17th 2015.