2012 Financial Times ‘Book of the Year’ award: all shortlisted works now in the EUI Library

All books on the F.T. 2012 shortlist are now in the EUI Library. The winner will be announced on the 1st of November. The shortlist is: Why Nations Fail: the origins of power, prosperity and poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (EUI shelfmark 338.9 ACE); The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: risk-taking, gut feelings and the biology of boom and bust by John Coates (155.24 COA); Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American power by Steve Coll (338.76223380973 COL); Steve Jobs: the exclusive biography by Walter Isaacson (621.39092 ISA); What Money Can’t Buy: the moral limits of markets by Michael J. Sandel (174.4 SAN) and; Volcker: the triumph of persistence by William L. Silber (332.110 SIL).