FT/McKinsey business book of the year shortlist announced

FT/McKinsey business book of the year shortlist announced

Books about the future of work, corporate culture, technology and the US economy feature among the six finalists for Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year.

Vivian Hunt, senior partner at McKinsey, announced the shortlist for the £30,000 prize at an online event on Wednesday. The eight judges will select a winner and present the prize on December 1.

The finalists are:

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, which is based on the authors' findings about the rising mortality rate among white non-college-educated Americans;

If Then, Jill Lepore's history of the Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, whose legacy can be detected today in the work of companies such as Google, Amazon and Facebook;

No Filter, by Sarah Frier, about what happened after Facebook