John Kay (economist)

John Kay (economist)

John Kay (born 1948, Edinburgh) is a leading British business economist of centrist persuasion.

Kay was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh University, and Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been a fellow of St John's College, Oxford since 1970, and lectured economics at Oxford from 1971 to 1978.

In 1979, Kay became Research Director and the Director of the independent think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies.[1] In 1986 he became a professor at the London Business School and founded London Economics, a consultancy firm. He was the first director of Oxford's Said Business School from 1997 to 1999, and has written at some length as to why he chose to resign after only two years.[2] He has served as a director of Halifax plc and of several investment companies.

Kay (2003),[3] addressed to non-economists, attempts to answer what Robert Lucas has called the most exciting economic question: across the globe, why are so few rich and so many poor?

Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.johnkay.com/about John Kay website - About John Kay
  2. ^ Kay, John (2000) "The Management of the University of Oxford... Facing the Future." Also see the following articles in Prospect: "A Lost Cause?", December 2000, "Reply", January 2001, and "Arguing over Oxford," February 2001. See his "Oxford Experiences," Times Higher Education Supplement, November 24, 2000. Morrison, Richard, "Has Oxford missed the boat?" The Times, November 30, 2000.
  3. ^ http://www.johnkay.com/political/284

Books by Kay

Some of Kay's many columns on economics and business topics, published in the Financial Times, are reprinted in his:

  • 1996. The Business of Economics
  • 2004. Everlasting Light Bulbs
  • 2006. The Hare & the Tortoise.

Other books include:

  • 1979 (and four subsequent editions). The British Tax System
  • 1993. Foundations of Corporate Success
  • 1995. Why Firms Succeed. A slightly revised, shortened, and "Americanized" version of Foundations of Corporate Success
  • 2003. The Truth about Markets. Published in the USA in 2004 as Culture and Prosperity: Why some nations are rich but most remain poor. HarperCollins.
  • 2009. The long and short of it: finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry
  • 2010. Obliquity – how our goals are best pursued indirectly

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