Spear's Book AwardFinancial History

Given by Spear's Magazine

27 Works 2,879 Books 67 Reviews ½ 4.0
Spear's Book Awards were awarded in a number of categories between 2009 and 2014. In 2009, the awards jury picked books which went on to win the Man Booker Prize and the FT/Goldman Sachs Prize.




In show more 2010 the categories included:




Citi Private Bank Financial History of the Year

Financial Book of the Year

Biography of the Year

Family History of the Year

Social History of the Year

Illustrated Book of the Year

Novel of the Year

Spear's Special Awards:

For Best First Book

For Outstanding Achievement for a body of work

For an Outstandingly Produced Book

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Stages:
All, Spear's (33), Shortlist (138), No Stage (48)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2014 (4), 2013 (4), 2012 (4), 2011 (4), 2010 (5), 2009 (6)

Spear's 1

WorkYear
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror by Beverly Gage2009

Shortlist 20

WorkYear
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton2014
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt by Kwasi Kwarteng2014
The Downfall of Money: Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class by Frederick Taylor2014
The Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham by Joe Carlen2013
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America by Jonathan Levy2013
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy by Thomas K. McCraw2013
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber2012
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States by Geoffrey C. Ward2012
Fortune's Spear: A Forgotten Story of Genius, Fraud, and Finance in the Roaring Twenties by Martin Vander Weyer2012
Exorbitant Privilege: The Decline of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System by Barry Eichengreen2011
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson2011
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby2011
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan Beattie2010
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart2010
The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth2010
Don't Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself by Robert Sloan2010
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough2009
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D. Ellis2009
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson2009
The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency by David Marsh2009

No Stage 6

WorkYear
Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 by Richard Roberts2014
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil2013
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar2012
The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance by Michael Perino2011
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy2010
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed2009

Descriptions

Spear's Book Awards were awarded in a number of categories between 2009 and 2014. In 2009, the awards jury picked books which went on to win the Man Booker Prize and the FT/Goldman Sachs Prize.


In 2010 the categories included:


Citi Private Bank Financial History of the Year

Financial Book of the Year

Biography of the Year

Family History of the Year

Social History of the Year

Illustrated Book of the Year

Novel of the Year

Spear's Special Awards:

For Best First Book

For Outstanding Achievement for a body of work

For an Outstandingly Produced Book

(English, Wikipedia)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear%27s_Wealth_Management_Survey
The Spear's Book Awards were first awarded in 2009. (English, Member-written)

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