FT/麦肯锡年度最佳商业图书奖候选名单公布

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.

6部直击世界经济和管理重大挑战（从美国生产力缺口到持续存在的性别不平衡问题）的重量级著作，入围了年度最佳商业图书候选名单。

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.

英国《金融时报》和麦肯锡年度最佳商业图书奖(Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award)的评委们称赞了候选图书（这些书是从多达15部初选作品中挑选出来的）内容的广度和深度。

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.

争夺3万英镑奖金的候选图书包括经济学家罗伯特•戈登(Robert Gordon)所著的《美国成长的兴衰》(The Rise and Fall of American Growth)，以及即将出版的塞巴斯蒂安•马拉比(Sebastian Mallaby)所著的艾伦•格林斯潘(Alan Greenspan)传记《知者：格林斯潘传》(The Man Who Knew)。《美国成长的兴衰》一书对增长势头将不会减弱的观点表示了异议。

Also on the shortlist are What Works, Iris Bohnet’s guide to how organisations can offset unconscious bias against women and manage diversity, and The 100-Year-Life by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott, about longevity.

候选图书还包括艾丽斯•博内特(Iris Bohnet)所著的《什么管用？》（What Works，指导机构如何能够消除针对女性的无意识的偏见和实现多元化），以及琳达•格拉顿(Lynda Gratton)和安德鲁•斯科特(Andrew Scott)合著的关于长寿的著作《百岁人生》(The 100-Year Life)。

Makers and Takers is Rana Foroohar’s critique of the dominance of high finance, while Duncan Clark’s Alibaba is an inside account of the rise of the Chinese internet company and its founder, Jack Ma.

拉娜•福鲁哈尔(Rana Foroohar)在著作《制造者与索取者》(Makers and Takers)中批判了高级金融的主导地位，邓肯•克拉克(Duncan Clark)所著的《阿里巴巴》(Alibaba)从内部讲述了这家中国互联网公司以及其创始人马云(Jack Ma)的崛起。

Readers will find much to debate and many practical solutions, said Lionel Barber, editor of the FT and chair of the panel of judges.

读者会发现很多值得讨论的东西和很多实用的解决方案，评委会主席、英国《金融时报》主编莱昂内尔•巴伯(Lionel Barber)表示。

Rodney Zemmel, McKinsey’s managing partner for north-east US, announced the shortlist at a lunch in Manhattan yesterday.

麦肯锡美国东北管理合伙人罗德尼•泽梅尔(Rodney Zemmel)昨天在曼哈顿举行的午餐会上宣布了候选图书名单。

Rather than just laying out the problems, the authors offer interdisciplinary thinking and an intriguing range of potential answers.

作者们不是单纯地罗列出问题，而是提供了跨学科的思考和一系列有趣的潜在答案。

The annual prize, launched in 2005, goes to the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into business.

该奖项创立于2005年，颁发给那些为商业提供最令人瞩目和愉快的见解的图书。

It will be presented in London on November 22, at a dinner where Dido Harding, chief executive of TalkTalk, the UK telecoms group, will give a keynote speech.

2016年度FT和麦肯锡最佳商业图书奖将于11月22日在伦敦举行的颁奖晚宴上颁发，英国电信集团TalkTalk行政总裁迪多•哈丁(Dido Harding)届时将发表主题演讲。

Each runner-up will receive ￡10,000.

所有候选图书都将获得1万英镑奖金。

Last year’s winner was The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford, and in 2014 the prize went to Thomas Piketty for Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

去年获奖的是马丁•福特(Martin Ford)所著的《机器人的崛起》(The Rise of the Robots)，2014年获奖的是托马•皮凯蒂(Thomas Piketty)所著的《21世纪资本论》(Capital in the Twenty-First Century)。

In parallel with the business book award, the FT and McKinsey are again backing the ￡15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for the best business book proposal by a writer aged under 35, for which the entry closing date is September 30.

除了颁发该奖，英国《金融时报》和麦肯锡还将再次颁发布拉肯•鲍尔奖(Bracken Bower Prize)，奖励年龄在35岁以下的作者的最佳商业图书计划，奖金额为1.5万英镑，参赛截止日期为9月30日。