John Kay

For many years, much of the British workforce enjoyed lifetime employment with a secure pension, based on final salary and underpinned by a reliable...

The title, The Secret of Our Success, may lead this book be mistaken for a self-help manual, to be shelved alongside 12 Rules for...

Yes, says Vince Cable The online landscape is dominated by a handful of tech titans, with nine in 10 internet searches made through Google, 99...

It is a remarkable fact, but few businesses ever seem to fail because of excessive leverage, misconceived strategies, or inability to meet the needs...

Watching the progress of Scottish nationalism is like watching a teenager grow up. Last year, at the age of 18, Scotland’s devolved parliament finally...

Adam Smith would, as is widely recognised, have been sceptical about the current vogue for ‘industrial strategy’: ‘The statesman who should attempt to direct private...

Introduction The corporation is the most important of modern economic institutions. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of business organisations with many employees and differing...

Embrace radical uncertainty Between 1920 and 1950, a debate took place which defined the future of economics in the second half of the 20th century....

The equity markets with which we are familiar came into being in the 19th century to finance railways and railroads. Railways and railroads were...

https://soundcloud.com/curioio/john-kay-bitcoin-boon-or/s-UenQt Boon or Bubble? Is Bitcoin a bubble, a scam, a Ponzi scheme? Or a transformational innovation which will change forever the functioning of the global...