I am very happy and proud to announce that Paper Money Collapse – The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown has been shortlisted for the 2012 getAbstract book award. Previous winners include Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Niall Ferguson, Robert Shiller, Bill Bonner, Thomas Sowell and Peter Schiff. The award ceremony will be held at the International Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, on October 10. Yours truly will, of course, be there. Keep your fingers crossed!
Below is the press announcement from getAbstract and the list of nominees:
getAbstract’s 12th Annual International Book Award Ceremony
The awards ceremony takes place on October 10, 2012, at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Lucerne, Switzerland – July 30, 2012 – Albert Einstein once said, “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.” getAbstract concurs. Good authors recognize problems and break them down to their basic elements. Moreover, the very best writers even have some ideas about how to solve these inextricable dilemmas.
For the 12th time since 2001, getAbstract is proud to award a prize for the best business books of 2012 at the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair, on October 10, 2012. getAbstract (www.getAbstract.com) assessed more than 10,000 English and German business books in the fields of leadership and management, strategy, sales and marketing, human resources, economics and politics, finance, and career development, and we have selected 10 finalists. The 2012 nominees are:
GERMAN
- App-Economy by Ansgar Mayer – mi-Wirtschaftsbuch/Münchner Verlagsgruppe
- Ausgegeizt by Uli Burchardt – Campus Verlag
- Data Unser by Björn Bloching, Lars Luck, Thomas Ramge – Redline/Münchner Verlagsgruppe
- Der amerikanische Patient by Josef Braml – Siedler/Random House Verlagsgruppe
- Zerschlagt die Banken by Rudolf Hickel – Econ/Ullstein Verlage
ENGLISH
- Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky – Business Plus/Hachette Group
- Paper Money Collapse by Detlev S. Schlichter – John Wiley & Sons
- Reverse Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble – Harvard Business Review Press
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Too Big to Know by David Weinberger – Basic Books/Perseus Books Group
Two of the nominated titles from each language category will receive this well-established and, in the international publishing world, coveted business book award. The official awards ceremony will take place on October 10, 2012, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at Frankfurt Book Fair’s “Lesezelt” in Frankfurt am Main.
About the getAbstract International Book Award
This year, the award celebrates its 12th anniversary. When getAbstract launched its business book award in 2001, it was the first international award of its kind. Since then, getAbstract has presented the prize to such esteemed authors as George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ian Morris, Benoît Mandelbrot, Malcolm Gladwell, Niall Ferguson, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Sowell, Chris Anderson, Peter Sloterdijk, Gunter Dueck, Uwe Jean Heuser, Wolfgang Münchau and Hans-Werner Sinn.
For more details about previous award winners, please go to:
http://www.getAbstract.com/Bookaward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GetAbstract_International_Book_Award
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Congratulations Detlev. It’s a testament to the quality of your analysis and the way you communicate it. I’ll be anxiously watching for the award decision.
Very best of luck. I’ve read your book in detail and your nomination is well deserved.
That is really super news Detlev! I am very happy for you. All it took for me was one read through your post, “The separation of money and state” back in April and I was hooked. I KNEW you were quality, then and there. I then went back through all your posts and read them all. Your blog was the first one I found that really made sense of monetary theory. Thank you for your hard work and dedication and I am sure you will win on Oct. 10th! : )
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Congratulations Detlev Schlichter
Surely no contest?
You should have done a German version too Detlev and scooped both categories!
A German translation of the book is in the works, by the way. And a Swedish one just came out recently.
Congrats. Just taking a quick look at the other books tells me that this organization has some very nice picks, and PMC definitely belongs in the pantheon of those great works!
Congratulations! That is great!
Congratulations! I hope you have a great time at the ceremony!
Congratulations Detlev and I’ll keep my fingers crossed!!!
P.S. An Italian translation of the book is urgently needed!!!
Detlev,
I’m thrilled for you that you got this nomination. You know, I really loved your book and I recommend it to everyone I know, however, I haven’t been able to get a single person to read it. I fear that it’s a topic which not that many people are interested in on the face of it. It doesn’t sound sexy enough, I guess.
But what your book has to say is so important, and I just wish more thinking people would expose themselves to your ideas.
Hopefully, this award will help get the word out, I’m sure even the mere nomination has already helped.
Good luck, I hope you win!
Alan
Alan, many thanks. Much appreciated.