The ‘‘'getAbstract International Book Award’‘' is focused on non-fiction books that have made a significant impact worldwide. Each year, getAbstract's editors assess more than 10,000 English and German non-fiction books. From these, they select 10 finalists

and four winners.

Since 2001, getAbstract

GetAbstract

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 has awarded the prize to several esteemed authors, including Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Robert Shiller

Robert Shiller

Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management...

, Benoît Mandelbrot

Benoît Mandelbrot

Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a French American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child...

 and Chris Anderson (writer), as well as their publishers. Every year, the official awards ceremony takes place at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurt Book Fair

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. As to the number of visitors, the Turin Book Fair attracts about as many visitors, viz. some 300,000....

  in Germany and is open to the public. Since 2001 the award ceremony has been moderated by Rolf Dobelli

Rolf Dobelli

Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss novelist, entrepreneur and chairman of getAbstract.He was born in 1966 in Lucerne, Switzerland. In 1986, he enrolled at the University of St. Gallen, where he studied business, earning his in 1991 and PhD in 1995. He was hired by Swissair in 1992 and held several...

, getAbstract’s Chairman. The award has been covered by Financial Times

Financial Times

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  Germany, Handelszeitung & The Wall Street Journal The Boston Globe, Reuters

Reuters

Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...

, Handelsblatt

Handelsblatt

The Handelsblatt is a leading German language business newspaper, published in Düsseldorf by the Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt. It has a circulation of 145.437 daily copies. Its editor-in-chief is Gabor Steingart...

 , Bloomberg Television

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 , and several other newspapers

, magazines and websites
.

Winners of the getAbstract International Book Award

• 2001 – Howard Means for Money and Power
• 2001 – Benjamin Mark Cole for The Pied Pipers of Wall Street
• 2002 – Kenneth Cloke for The End of Management
• 2003 – Robert Shiller
  Robert Shiller
  Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management...
  
   for The New Financial Order
• 2003 – Paul Glen for Leading Geeks
• 2004 – Benoît Mandelbrot
  Benoît Mandelbrot
  Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a French American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child...
  
   for The (Mis)behavior of Markets
• 2005 – W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne for Blue Ocean Strategy
  Blue Ocean Strategy
  Blue Ocean Strategy is a business strategy book first published in 2005 and written by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne of at INSEAD. The book illustrates what the authors believe is the high growth and profits an organization can generate by creating new demand in an uncontested market space, or...
  
  
• 2006 – Chris Anderson for The Long Tail
• 2007 – Eugene O'Kelly for Chasing Daylight
  Chasing Daylight (book)
  Chasing Daylight is a biography and a common-sense guidebook on how to die and live by Eugene O'Kelly, who is the Ex-Chairman and former CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U.S. accounting firms. The biography won, among other awards, the International Business Book Award from the Financial Times...
  
  
• 2007 – Nassim Nicholas Taleb for The Black Swan
• 2008 – Thomas Sowell
  Thomas Sowell
  Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective...
  
   for Economic Facts and Fallacies
• 2008 – Bill Bonner
  Bill Bonner (author)
  Bill Bonner is an author of books and articles on economic and financial subjects. He is the founder and president of Agora Publishing, and the principal author of a daily financial column known as The Daily Reckoning...
  
   and Lila Rajiva for Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets
• 2009 – George Akerlof
  George Akerlof
  George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of...
  
   and Robert Shiller
  Robert Shiller
  Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management...
  
   for Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
  Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
  Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism is a book written to promote the understanding of the role played by emotions in influencing economic decision making...
  
  
• 2009 – Niall Ferguson
  Niall Ferguson
  Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....
  
   for The Ascent of Money
  The Ascent of Money
  The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World is Harvard professor Niall Ferguson's tenth book, published in 2008, and an adapted television documentary for Channel 4 and PBS...
  
  
• 2010 – David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter for Accelerating out of the Great Recession
• 2010 – Peter Schiff
  Peter Schiff
  Peter David Schiff is an American investment broker, author and financial commentator. Schiff is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut and CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals, LLC, a gold and silver dealer based in New York...
  
   and Andrew Schiff for How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes
• 2011 - Tom Devine and Tarek F. Maassarani for The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide
• 2011 - Ian Morris
  Ian Morris
  Ian Gordon Morris was a musician, record producer, recording engineer and songwriter from New Zealand...
  
  for Why the West Rules – for Now

External links

• getAbstract International Book Award home page