年度FT/麥肯錫最佳商業圖書獎公佈
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.
今年的英國《金融時報》和麥肯錫年度最佳商業圖書獎(Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award)，頒給了一部描寫前美聯儲(Fed)主席艾倫.格林斯潘(Alan Greenspan)的傳記，其內容引人入勝、面面俱到。
The Man Who Knew, by Sebastian Mallaby, is the 12th winner of the ￡30,000 award, which goes to the “most compelling and enjoyable” title of the year.
這部由塞巴斯蒂安.馬拉比(Sebastian Mallaby)所著的《知者：格林斯潘傳》(The Man Who Knew)，是這項獎金額爲3萬英鎊的獎項的第12位獲獎者。該獎項獎勵的是年度“最令人矚目和愉悅的”圖書。
It is the first biography to win the prize, although Mr Greenspan’s autobiography, The Age of Turbulence, was shortlisted in 2007, the year before the financial crisis raised serious questions about the central banker’s legacy.
這是傳記類作品首次贏得該獎項，儘管格林斯潘的自傳《動盪年代》(The Age of Turbulence)曾在2007年入圍終選名單——一年之後爆發的金融危機，引發了對這位中央銀行家遺產的強烈質疑。
“The Man Who Knew is an impressive work of scholarship,” Lionel Barber, editor of the FT and chair of the book award judges, said. “It’s a masterpiece of political economy and, above all, it’s a great and enjoyable read.”
評委會主席、英國《金融時報》總編輯萊昂內爾.巴伯(Lionel Barber)表示：“《知者》是一部令人印象深刻的學術著作，一部關於政治經濟學的傑作，最重要的是，它是一部偉大和令人愉悅的讀物。”
Mr Mallaby’s 800-page book was published in October by Bloomsbury and Penguin Press, and was hailed as “exceptional” in an FT review. It came up against strong competition from five other shortlisted books tackling the world’s critical economic and management challenges — from the US productivity gap to persistent gender imbalances.
馬拉比這部長達800頁的作品今年10月由布魯姆斯伯裏出版社(Bloomsbury)和企鵝出版社(Penguin Press)出版。英國《金融時報》的一篇書評稱讚該書“非比尋常”。該書是在同終選名單中的另外五部作品展開激烈競爭後脫穎而出的。另五部作品嚐試解決的是世界上一些重要的經濟與管理難題——從美國的生產率缺口，到持續存在的性別失衡。
Mr Mallaby accepted the award at a dinner in London on November 22, where the guest speaker was Dido Harding, chief executive of TalkTalk, the UK telecoms group.
11月22日，馬拉比在倫敦的一場晚宴上領取了該獎。英國電信集團TalkTalk行政總裁迪多.哈丁(Dido Harding)應邀在晚宴上發表了演講。
