{"id":71951,"date":"2017-08-16T02:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T09:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/business-book-of-the-year-2017-the-longlist"},"modified":"2017-08-16T02:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T09:42:23","slug":"business-book-of-the-year-2017-the-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/business-book-of-the-year-2017-the-longlist","title":{"rendered":"Business Book of the Year 2017 \u2014 the longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/business-book-of-the-year-2017-the-longlist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Death, taxis and technology: titles in the running for this year\u2019s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year give a new twist to the old maxim about certainty.<\/p>\n<p>The 17 books on the 2017 longlist include analyses of the implications of world-changing innovations, from the iPhone to drones; a lively account of the rise of Uber; and a sobering history of the role war, plague and catastrophe have played in shaping our economies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Titles about the relentless march of technology dominate the FT\/McKinsey annual prize.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0481517c-7c47-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0481517c-7c47&#45;11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death, taxis and technology: titles in the running for this year\u2019s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year give a new twist to the old maxim about certainty. The 17 books on the 2017 longlist include analyses of the implications of world-changing innovations, from the iPhone to drones; a lively account of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488,39,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones","category-economics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}