Martin Ford has won the £30,000 (about $45,645) 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award for The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (Basic Books). Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times and chair of the panel of judges, called the book "a tightly-written and deeply-researched addition to the public policy debate du jour and du demain. The judges didn't agree with all of the conclusions, but were unanimous on the verdict and the impact of the book."
The five runners-up each received £10,000 ($15,215).
Also Christopher Clearfield and András Tilcsik have won the £15,000 ($22,820) 2015 Bracken Bower Prize for their book proposal, Rethinking the Unthinkable: Managing the Risk of Catastrophic Failure in the Twenty-First Century. The prize is "designed to encourage young authors to tackle emerging business themes, with a focus this year on the challenges and opportunities presented by growth."