Books by Edward Fishman
“Eddie Fishman worked in the US State Department and helped to shape some of the policies that we’ve seen unfolding and being used against Russia, for example, over the Ukraine war. And although it sounds like a potentially rather dry tale, it’s enlivened by the way he takes you into the human side of it. People are trying to think creatively about ways in which they can apply the tools of economics to some pretty tense geopolitical confrontations. Fishman has really captured the zeitgeist of the moment. I was talking recently to one of my colleagues, who said that the word ‘chokepoints’ has become part of the language in which people talk about sanctions, tariffs etc.” Read more...
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Andrew Hill, Journalist
Interviews where books by Edward Fishman were recommended
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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
by Eva Dou -

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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
by Edward Fishman -

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How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
by Carl Benedikt Frey -

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Abundance: How We Build a Better Future
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson -

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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
by Dan Wang -

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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
It’s been another big year for technology and AI, but books on geopolitics and global political rivalries are front and centre on the shortlist of the 2025 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. FT journalist Andrew Hill, the prize’s organizer, talks us through the six books that made the cut—from the enigmatic founders of multi-billion- and trillion-dollar businesses to the challenges governments face in achieving growth and prosperity.






