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...The award itself will be presented at a dinner in London on December 5, where the winner of the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize (for business book proposals by an author aged under 35) will also be announced...
...The winner of the award, and the winner of the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize (for business book proposals by an author aged under 35) will be announced on December 5....
...The Aristocracy of Talent, by Adrian Wooldridge (co-author, with Alan Greenspan, of 2018’s longlisted Capitalism in America) takes issue with the backlash against meritocracy....
...A colourful and exhaustive biography of Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year....
...The award is presented at the same time as the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize, offered to writers under 35 for the best business book proposal. The Bracken Bower Prize closes for entries on September 30....
...At the same ceremony, Andrew Leon Hanna collected the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for the best proposal for a business book by an author aged under 35....
...Saadia Zahidi — the inaugural winner of this award’s sister Bracken Bower Prize in 2014 — examines another unexplored and promising prospect for capitalism in Fifty Million Rising....
...Last year’s award was won by Sebastian Mallaby for his magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, The Man Who Knew....
...The 2016 winner was Sebastian Mallaby for The Man Who Knew, his biography of former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan....
...Last year’s winner was Sebastian Mallaby for his biography of Alan Greenspan, The Man Who Knew. Books on finance and economics occupy a large section of this year’s prize bookshelf....
...£30,000 prize include The Rise and Fall of American Growth by economist Robert Gordon, which takes issue with the idea that growth will continue unabated; and Sebastian Mallaby’s forthcoming biography of Alan...
...“The great brains, like Alan Turing or Maurice Wilkes, laid the foundations for everything we do now,” he says....
...After the near-death experience, recovery: US carmaker Ford announced an orderly handover last week, from outgoing chief executive Alan Mulally to his successor, current chief operating officer Mark Fields...
...Mr Bernanke’s letter recalled a discussion in Congress as early as 1995, in which Alan Blinder, the Fed’s former vice-chairman, said that such innovations held promise if they “promote a faster, more secure...
...Sweet Revenge, Tom Bower’s insightful biography, narrates his string of failures in the business before the revolution of Pop Idol....
...Male bowerbirds build bowers to attract females, and their ability to do so is not innate....
...David Bower, head of UK sales at iShares, says good dividend payers tend do best when equity markets are stable....
...“Korus is a keystone for the US thrust on trade in Asia,” said Ernest Bower at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington....
...PA’s chief executive Alan Middleton agrees. “There is a lot of pressure under the headings of price and value,” he says....
...Alan Ruskin, strategist at RBS Securities, says the rise in Treasury yields and mortgage rates reflects a tightening of policy that the Fed does not want to see at this juncture....
...David Bowers of Absolute Strategy Research in London, who has been bullish for a while and advises staying in stocks, says: “It’s the last game of pass the parcel....
...The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World By Alan Greenspan Allen Lane £25, 531 pages FT bookshop price: £20 The former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, appointed by President Reagan in 1987,...
...Alan Ruskin, currency strategist at RBC Greenwich Capital Markets, pointed to the dangers earlier this week....
...Bower Harvard Business School Press £19.99, 272 pages FT bookshop price: £15.99 Business and organisations should grow their own leaders, this Harvard professor explains, but candidates must retain an edgy...
...The transition from Alan Greenspan to Mr Bernanke had created an uncertainty for markets. After Mr Greenspan’s 18-year stint, Mr Bowers said it was a “regime shift” for the markets....
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