Finalists have been named for the £30,000 (US$47,385) Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, which honors a book providing the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues. The winner will be announced in London November 3. This year's shortlisted titles are:
* Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (PublicAffairs)
* Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen (Oxford University Press)
* Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser (Penguin)
* Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan (Walker)
* Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt (Crown)
* The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin (Penguin)
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