New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman won the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award on Monday for "The World Is Flat," a look at the impact of globalization.
The award, for a book published between Oct. 31, 2004 and Nov. 1, comes with a 30,000 pound ($52,000; Ђ44,000) prize.
"&to=http://english.pravda.ru/letters/2002/02/07/26286.html' target=_blank>Thomas Friedman has identified the most important economic and political theme of the early 21st century and has provided us with the vocabulary for debating its merits and challenges," said Lloyd Blankfein, president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs.
Friedman said from &to=http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/10/43193.html' target=_blank>Washington that he was "thrilled and honored" and believed the newly established award would become "a much sought-after prize."
The runners-up were James Stewart for "Disneywar;" John Battelle's "The Search," about the Google search engine; Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner for "Freakonomics;" Constantinos Markides and Paul Geroski for "Fast Second," and Pietra Rivoli's "The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy," reports AP.
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