Chrystia Freeland has won the $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize for Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Doubleday Canada).

In a press release, jury chair William Thorsell says, “Plutocrats took the prize for its immediacy and authority about the future “ the world that we must comprehend and hope to manage in radically new circumstances.

The Alberta-born writer is the former deputy editor of The Globe and Mail and currently the managing director and consumer news editor at Thomson Reuters in New York City.

Founded in memory of Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber and co-presented by Foreign Policy magazine*, the prize will be presented at a free public lecture on April 15 at the University of Toronto.

The other finalists are:

• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944“1956, Anne Applebaum (Signal/McClelland & Stewart)
• The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, Paul Bracken (St. Martin’s/Raincoast)
• Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World, Kwasi Kwarteng (PublicAffairs/Publishers Group Canada)
• From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, Pankaj Mishra (Doubleday Canada)

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*Correction, March 26: A previous version of this post incorrectly stated the name of the magazine.