2015年FT/麥肯錫最佳商業(yè)圖書獎(jiǎng)揭曉（中英雙語）

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希尼爾翻譯公司（www.marshallsfreshproduce.com）2015年11月19日了解到：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(yè)圖書獎(jiǎng)(2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year)的獲獎(jiǎng)作品是《機(jī)器人的崛起：大規(guī)模失業(yè)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(dòng)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?福特(Martin Ford)周二在紐約的頒獎(jiǎng)典禮上獲得了英國《金融時(shí)報(bào)》和麥肯錫(McKinsey & Company)頒發(fā)的3萬英鎊獎(jiǎng)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”. 該書反映了部分群體越來越擔(dān)憂自動(dòng)化可能對就業(yè)——從制造業(yè)到專業(yè)服務(wù)領(lǐng)域的就業(yè)——產(chǎn)生的負(fù)面影響。該書英國版的副標(biāo)題警告了“大規(guī)模失業(yè)的威脅”，美國版的副標(biāo)題則預(yù)言了“一個(gè)失業(yè)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(fā)公司的創(chuàng)始人，他認(rèn)為“或許需要從根本上重建我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)規(guī)則”，以減輕機(jī)器人和自動(dòng)化的進(jìn)步帶來的沖擊。他提出建立保底的基本收入，即“公民紅利”，作為一項(xiàng)根本性的補(bǔ)救措施。

Not all the judges agreed with the book’s proposed solutions but nobody questioned the force of its argument. 并非所有評委都認(rèn)同該書提出的解決方案，但無人質(zhì)疑其論點(diǎn)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(shí)，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(shí)報(bào)》主編兼此次評選委員會(huì)主席萊昂內(nèi)爾?巴伯(Lionel Barber)稱《機(jī)器人的崛起：大規(guī)模失業(yè)的威脅與科技》“行文緊湊、研究深入，是公共政策辯論領(lǐng)域的又一佳作?！?span id="y4mwsemgwi0" class="style43">

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(yè)的圖書為主，Basic Books和Oneworld Publications出版的《機(jī)器人的崛起：大規(guī)模失業(yè)的威脅與科技》最終戰(zhàn)勝了強(qiáng)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后不為人知的故事》(Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry)，作者杰基?麥克尼什(Jacquie Mcnish)和肖恩?西爾科夫(Sean Silcoff)回顧了黑莓是怎樣偏離了航向；《數(shù)字黃金：比特幣背后不為人知的故事》(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(fèi)：一整代人犯下同樣罪行的后果》(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(wǎng)絡(luò)共享(P2P)擾亂唱片業(yè)的歷史；《做不完的事：女人、男人、工作、家庭》(Un?nished Business: Women Men Work Family)，作者安妮-瑪麗?斯勞特(Anne-Marie Slaughter)在書中討論了實(shí)現(xiàn)性別平衡面臨的挑戰(zhàn)，以及《行為不端：解讀行為經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)》(Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics)，作者理查德?泰勒(Richard Thaler)追蹤了行為經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)的發(fā)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(yè)圖書獎(jiǎng)的評獎(jiǎng)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)一直是“對現(xiàn)代商業(yè)問題提供了最令人嘆服且最有趣味的深刻見解”。2014年的獲獎(jiǎng)?wù)呤峭旭R斯?皮凱蒂(Thomas Piketty)的《21世紀(jì)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(jiǎng)典禮上，麥肯錫全球董事總經(jīng)理鮑達(dá)民(Dominic Barton)在典禮上還頒發(fā)了“布拉肯?鮑爾”青年商業(yè)作家獎(jiǎng)(Bracken Bower Prize for young business writers)，獲獎(jiǎng)?wù)邽榭死锼雇懈?克利爾菲爾德(Christopher Clearfield)和安德拉什?蒂爾奇克(András Tilcsik)。他們計(jì)劃出版的圖書將會(huì)探索企業(yè)如何能夠管控發(fā)生災(zāi)難性失敗的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。該獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)面向35歲以下作者，專門頒發(fā)給那些探討增長所構(gòu)成的挑戰(zhàn)和機(jī)遇的商業(yè)圖書計(jì)劃，獎(jiǎng)金為1.5萬英鎊。

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