The finalists for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award are Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo; Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen; Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser; Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan; Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt; The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin.
The winner will be announced November 3.