Value(s): Building A Better World for All

For the first time in its 36-year history, two authors have been named winners of the National Business Book Award (NBBA) and its $30,000 prize. In an extraordinary year for the award, with its longest list ever of worthy nominees, Stephen R. Bown’s The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire and Mark Carney’s Value(s): Building A Better World for All best exemplified the wide range and high calibre of outstanding Canadian business writing.

Value(s): Building a Better World for All published by Signal/McClelland &  Stewart, is focused on “mission-oriented capitalism” and the solutions that can better address  the complex challenges that have have surfaced as the second wave of globalization come to an end and the fourth industrial revolution  begins. Among those challenges are climate change, income inequality, a crisis of institutional trust and the urgent need for values-based leadership in the public and private sectors.

After decades at the highest levels of domestic and international economic and political policy making, Mark Carney posits that there is opportunity embedded in disruption, offering a chance to for ge a new consensus around common goals.

Mark Carney is the current Prime Minister of Canada (as of 2025). He previously served as the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and as the U.K.’s Finance Advisor for COP26. Earlier in his career, he was Governor of the Bank of England (2013–2020) and Governor of the Bank of Canada (2008–2013). He is also a member of the Group of Thirty and serves on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. Born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, he now lives in Ottawa.

“As a country, we are blessed to have such wonderful talent writing about Canada’s stories, with a
Canadian themes expressing our uniqueness,” says Miles S. Nadal, founder of Peerage Capital and the
2021 NBBA’s presenting partner. “The subjects of these books include the economy, business, and other areas, all from a completely unique Canadian perspective and [in] a holistic way which is so imperative.”

The 2021 finalists included:

• Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Fight or Submit: Standing Tall in Two World, published by ECW
  Press.

• Roger L. Martin, When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic
  Efficiency, published by Harvard Business Review Press.

• Jeff Rubin, The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed by Globalization, published by
  Random House Canada.