Chrystia Freeland’s ‘Plutocrats’ wins National Business Book Award

TORONTO – Journalist Chrystia Freeland has won this year’s National Business Book Award.

The Peace River, Alta., native took the $20,000 prize Tuesday for “Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else” (Doubleday Canada).

In March, the book about income gaps won the $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize.

The New York-based Freeland is managing director and editor of consumer news at Thomson Reuters. She’s also worked at the Financial Times and was the deputy editor of The Globe and Mail.

The other finalists for the prize were music industry maestro Bernie Finkelstein, CBC News senior business reporter Amanda Lang, and author Douglas Hunter.

Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, chaired the jury for the 28th annual honour.

Jury members included Jane Cooney, William Dimma, Peter Mansbridge, Deirdre McMurdy and Pamela Wallin.

The award, co-sponsored by PwC and BMO Financial Group, honours non-fiction, Canadian business-related books.