Black Markets and Business Blues wins prestigious international award

This book has won the prestigious Silver prize at New York’s Independent Publisher Awards in the Current Events category

IGPPO chairman Yvan Allaire’s latest book Black Markets… and Business Blues: The Man-made Crisis on 2007-2009 and the Road to a New Capitalism, which he co-wrote with Mihaela Firsirotu, holder of the Bombardier UQÀM chair, has won the prestigious Silver prize at New York’s Independent Publisher Awards in the Current Events category.

Allaire and Fisirotu’s book is in good company. Other workd honored include This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.

The prizes were awarded yesterday at a gala that took place in New York City.