2017年度FT/麥肯錫最佳商業(yè)圖書(shū)獎(jiǎng)公布

A widely reported story about the impact of a factory closure on a US community is this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award winner.

今年的英國(guó)《金融時(shí)報(bào)》/麥肯錫年度最佳商業(yè)圖書(shū)獎(jiǎng)(Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award)，頒給了一部講述美國(guó)一家工廠關(guān)閉給當(dāng)?shù)厣鐓^(qū)造成的影響的著作，該工廠關(guān)閉的事件曾被廣泛報(bào)道。

Janesville by Amy Goldstein was awarded the £30,000 prize at a ceremony in New York yesterday. It examines the consequences of General Motors’ decision to close an assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, in 2008 and traces the fate of workers and their families, local politicians, unions and companies in the region.

昨日，埃米•戈?duì)柎奶?Amy Goldstein)的著作《簡(jiǎn)斯維爾》(Janesville)在紐約舉行的頒獎(jiǎng)儀式上獲得了3萬(wàn)英鎊的獎(jiǎng)金。這部作品考察了2008年通用汽車(General Motors)決定關(guān)閉威斯康星州簡(jiǎn)斯維爾的一家裝配廠造成的影響，追蹤了工廠工人及其家人、當(dāng)?shù)卣稳耸?、地區(qū)工會(huì)和企業(yè)的命運(yùn)。

The judges praised the book’s humanity and its relevance for a time when many companies face difficult decisions about how to automate and restructure.

評(píng)委贊揚(yáng)了這本書(shū)展現(xiàn)出的人性以及對(duì)時(shí)局的切中——當(dāng)下許多公司面臨著如何走向自動(dòng)化和重組的艱難抉擇。

“It’s a work of enormous integrity, complexity and commitment,” said one, during the judging meeting. “This is a book that every business person should read.”

“這是一部極其翔實(shí)、復(fù)雜和付出了心血的作品。”一位評(píng)委在評(píng)審會(huì)上說(shuō)：“這是一本每一位商業(yè)人士都應(yīng)該閱讀的書(shū)。”

Lionel Barber, FT editor and chair of judges, said: “Janesville is about the new industrial age and how you deal with it.

英國(guó)《金融時(shí)報(bào)》總編輯、評(píng)委會(huì)主席萊昂內(nèi)爾•巴伯(Lionel Barber)說(shuō)：“《簡(jiǎn)斯維爾》的主題是新工業(yè)時(shí)代以及我們要如何應(yīng)對(duì)。

I think it addresses deeply important policy issues such as skills and retraining. But it’s also a human portrait of people and their community.”

“我認(rèn)為這本書(shū)深刻觸及了重要的政策問(wèn)題，比如技能和再培訓(xùn)。但它也對(duì)人們和他們所處的社區(qū)做出了人性化刻畫(huà)。”

One of Janesville’s insights is that the common policy solution of training dislocated workers in new skills is not always as effective as policymakers would like to think. “Job retraining, it turned out, was not a path to more work or better pay in and around Janesville,” Ms Goldstein writes.

《簡(jiǎn)斯維爾》中提出的一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)是，對(duì)失業(yè)工人提供新技能培訓(xùn)的常見(jiàn)政策解決方案并不總是像政策制定者所想的那么有效。戈?duì)柎奶箤?xiě)道：“事實(shí)證明，在簡(jiǎn)斯維爾及其周邊地區(qū)，職業(yè)再培訓(xùn)并不是一條通往更多工作機(jī)會(huì)或更好薪資待遇的路。”

Ms Goldstein, a reporter at the Washington Post, is the first female author to win the award outright; Esther Duflo, shared the award with co-author Abhijit Banerjee for Poor Economics, which won in 2011.

戈?duì)柎奶故恰度A盛頓郵報(bào)》(Washington Post)記者，是首位獨(dú)力贏得該獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)的女作者;此前女作者埃絲特•迪弗洛(Esther Duflo)與合著者阿巴吉特•班納吉(Abhijit Banerjee)的作品《貧窮經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)》(Poor Economics)在2011年獲獎(jiǎng)。

She spent years reporting from Wisconsin, bringing the story up to the eve of Donald Trump’s rise to the US presidency. Janesville is the hometown of Republican politician Paul Ryan, now Speaker of the US House of Representatives. In an epilogue, Ms Goldstein points out that Janesville failed “to align with the common wisdom” about how Mr Trump won power, fuelled by the grievances of the white working class. The county that includes Janesville narrowly voted for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president last year, despite its economic catastrophe.

戈?duì)柎奶够藥啄甑臅r(shí)間在威斯康星報(bào)道，把這個(gè)故事一直講到了唐納德•特朗普(Donald Trump)登上美國(guó)總統(tǒng)之位的前夕。簡(jiǎn)斯維爾是共和黨政治家、現(xiàn)任美國(guó)眾議院議長(zhǎng)保羅•瑞安(Paul Ryan)的故鄉(xiāng)。在結(jié)語(yǔ)部分，戈?duì)柎奶怪赋?，在特朗普如何贏得權(quán)力這件事上，簡(jiǎn)斯維爾的情況不“符合一般的看法”。白人工人階級(jí)的不滿情緒對(duì)特朗普上臺(tái)起到了推波助瀾的作用。而簡(jiǎn)斯維爾所屬的縣，盡管經(jīng)濟(jì)凋敝，但在去年的總統(tǒng)大選中投給民主黨候選人希拉里•克林頓(Hillary Clinton)的票仍略多一點(diǎn)。

In an FT podcast, recorded ahead of the prize, Ms Goldstein explained how she had to win the trust of the local Janesville community.

在頒獎(jiǎng)前，英國(guó)《金融時(shí)報(bào)》錄制了一條視頻，戈?duì)柎奶乖谄渲薪忉屃怂秊槭裁幢仨氌A得簡(jiǎn)斯維爾當(dāng)?shù)厣鐓^(qū)的信任。

At the same ceremony, Mehran Gul won the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for the best proposal for a business book by an author aged under 35. His proposal — The New Geography of Innovation — examines the rise of innovative start-ups beyond Silicon Valley.

在頒獎(jiǎng)典禮上，邁赫蘭•古爾(Mehran Gul)贏得了布拉肯•鮑爾獎(jiǎng)(Bracken Bower Prize)，獎(jiǎng)金1.5萬(wàn)英鎊，該獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)旨在獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)年齡在35歲以下的作者的最佳創(chuàng)作商業(yè)書(shū)籍構(gòu)想。他的創(chuàng)作提案——《創(chuàng)新的新版圖》(The New Geography of Innovation)——主要考察硅谷以外創(chuàng)新型初創(chuàng)企業(yè)的崛起。

The Business Book of the Year Award was launched in 2005 and goes to the book that provides the “most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics”.

本項(xiàng)年度商業(yè)圖書(shū)獎(jiǎng)創(chuàng)立于2005年，頒發(fā)給那些針對(duì)管理、金融和經(jīng)濟(jì)等方面的現(xiàn)代商業(yè)問(wèn)題，提出“最令人信服且富有趣味的深刻見(jiàn)解”的圖書(shū)。

The 2016 winner was Sebastian Mallaby for The Man Who Knew, his biography of former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.

2016年度的獲獎(jiǎng)圖書(shū)是塞巴斯蒂安•馬拉比(Sebastian Mallaby)所著的《知者：格林斯潘傳》(The Man Who Knew)，這是一部描寫(xiě)前美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)(Fed)主席艾倫•格林斯潘(Alan Greenspan)的傳記。

Authors of the other shortlisted books — whose topics ranged from sexism in Silicon Valley to the history of the iPhone — each receive £10,000. They are: The Spider Network by David Enrich; Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo; The One Device by Brian Merchant; Reset by Ellen Pao; and The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel.

其他入圍圖書(shū)——題材從硅谷的性別歧視到iPhone的歷史——的作者們每人都獲得了1萬(wàn)英鎊獎(jiǎng)金。這些圖書(shū)是：戴維•恩里奇(David Enrich)所著的《蛛網(wǎng)》(The Spider Network);羅聞全(Andrew Lo)所著的《適應(yīng)性市場(chǎng)》(Adaptive Markets);布賴恩•麥錢特(Brian Merchant)所著的《蘋果手機(jī)秘史》(The One Device);鮑康如(Ellen Pao)所著的《重新設(shè)定》(Reset);以及沃爾特•沙伊德?tīng)?Walter Scheidel)所著的《The Great Leveler》。

Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive at IAC and Expedia, was the guest speaker at the New York dinner.

IAC/Expedia董事長(zhǎng)兼高管巴里•迪勒(Barry Diller)擔(dān)任此次紐約晚宴的演講嘉賓。