The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs announced the 2009 Business Book of the Year: Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and The Bankers Who Broke the World. This year's winner tells the story of how mistakes made by four central bankers fueled the world economic collapse of the late 1920s.

Other finalists this year included:

• Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
• Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality, and an Uncertain World by Stephen Green
• Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century by Nandan Nilekani
• The Match King: Ivar Kreuger and the Financial Scandal of the Century by Frank Partnoy
• In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic by David Wessel