年FT/麥肯錫最佳商業圖書獎揭曉
A disturbing and often bleak analysis of the automated future of work has been named 2015’s business book of the year.
2015年FT/麥肯錫最佳商業圖書獎(2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year)的獲獎作品是《機器人的崛起：大規模失業的威脅與科技》(The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment)，這本書對工作自動化的未來做出了令人不安和常常令人消沉的分析。
Martin Ford, author of The Rise of the Robots , received the 30,000 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday.
該書作者馬丁輠祹(Martin Ford)週二在紐約的頒獎典禮上獲得了英國《金融時報》和麥肯錫(McKinsey & Company)頒發的3萬英鎊獎金。
The book reflects growing anxiety in some quarters about the possible negative impact of automation on jobs, from manufacturing to professional services. The subtitle of its UK edition warns of “the threat of mass unemployment” and, in the US edition, foresees “a jobless future”.
該書反映了部分羣體越來越擔憂自動化可能對就業——從製造業到專業服務領域的就業——產生的負面影響。該書英國版的副標題警告了“大規模失業的威脅”，美國版的副標題則預言了“一個失業的未來”。
Mr Ford, founder of a Silicon Valley software development company, suggests “a fundamental restructuring of our economic rules” may be needed to mitigate the impact of the advance of robotics and automation. He proposes a guaranteed minimum basic income — or “citizen’s dividend” — as one radical remedy.
福特是硅谷一家軟件開發公司的創始人，他認爲“或許需要從根本上重建我們的經濟規則”，以減輕機器人和自動化的進步帶來的衝擊。他提出建立保底的基本收入，即“公民紅利”，作爲一項根本性的補救措施。
Not all the judges agreed with the book’s proposed solutions but nobody questioned the force of its argument.
並非所有評委都認同該書提出的解決方案，但無人質疑其論點的力量。
In a closely fought debate about the six shortlisted titles, one judge described Mr Ford’s book as “a hard-headed and all-encompassing” analysis of the problem. Lionel Barber, FT editor and chair of the judging panel, called The Rise of the Robots “a tightly written and deeply researched addition to the public policy debate”.
在對入圍的六本圖書展開激烈辯論時，一名評委形容福特的書對該問題做出了“冷靜而全面”的分析。英國《金融時報》主編兼此次評選委員會主席萊昂內爾巴伯(Lionel Barber)稱《機器人的崛起：大規模失業的威脅與科技》“行文緊湊、研究深入，是公共政策辯論領域的又一佳作。”
The book — published by Basic Books and Oneworld Publications — won out against a strong shortlist dominated by books on technology.
入圍名單以聚焦科技業的圖書爲主，Basic Books和Oneworld Publications出版的《機器人的崛起：大規模失業的威脅與科技》最終戰勝了強大的對手。
The other finalists, each of which will receive 10,000, were: Losing the Signal , by Jacque McNish and Sean Silcoff, who look at how BlackBerry went off course; Digital Gold , Nathaniel Popper’s examination of the rise of bitcoin, the virtual currency; How Music Got Free , Stephen Witt’s history of the way piracy and peer-to-peer sharing have disrupted the recorded music industry; Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new book Unfinished Business , about the challenge of achieving gender balance; and Misbehaving , in which Richard Thaler traces the development of behavioural economics.
其他入圍者分別是：《失去信號：黑莓離奇崛起與驚人隕落背後不爲人知的故事》(Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry)，作者傑基麥克尼什(Jacquie Mcnish)和肖恩纏爾科夫(Sean Silcoff)回顧了黑莓是怎樣偏離了航向；《數字黃金：比特幣背後不爲人知的故事》(Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin)，作者納塔涅爾波佩爾(Nathaniel Popper)審視了虛擬貨幣比特幣的崛起；《音樂如何變免費：一整代人犯下同樣罪行的後果》(How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?)，作者斯蒂芬威特(Stephen Witt)介紹了盜版和對等網絡共享(P2P)擾亂唱片業的歷史；《做不完的事：女人、男人、工作、家庭》(Un滻椀猀梔攀攙 Business: Women Men Work Family)，作者安妮-瑪麗斯勞特(Anne-Marie Slaughter)在書中討論了實現性別平衡面臨的挑戰，以及《行爲不端：解讀行爲經濟學》(Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics)，作者理查德泰勒(Richard Thaler)追蹤了行爲經濟學的發展。
Since 2005, the business book of the year award has gone to the book that provides “the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues”. The 2014 winner was Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.
自2005年以來，年度最佳商業圖書獎的評獎標準一直是“對現代商業問題提供了最令人歎服且最有趣味的深刻見解”。2014年的獲獎者是托馬斯皮凱蒂(Thomas Piketty)的《21世紀的資本》(Capital in the Twenty-First Century)。
At the same ceremony in New York, Dominic Barton, McKinsey’s global managing director, awarded the Bracken Bower Prize for young business writers to Christopher Clearfield and András Tilcsik. Their proposed book would look at how businesses can manage the risk of catastrophic failure. The 15,000 prize goes to the best proposal for a business book about the challenges and opportunities presented by growth by authors under 35.
在此次頒獎典禮上，麥肯錫全球董事總經理鮑達民(Dominic Barton)在典禮上還頒發了“布拉肯貟爾”青年商業作家獎(Bracken Bower Prize for young business writers)，獲獎者爲克里斯托弗克利爾菲爾德(Christopher Clearfield)和安德拉什舠爾奇克(András Tilcsik)。他們計劃出版的圖書將會探索企業如何能夠管控發生災難性失敗的風險。該獎項面向35歲以下作者，專門頒發給那些探討增長所構成的挑戰和機遇的商業圖書計劃，獎金爲1.5萬英鎊。
