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24 Oct
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October 24, 2002

Copyright law has a duty to creativity

We are often told that the best way to protect artistic innovation and creativity is to extend copyright. But it is not usually the budding novelist or musician that pushes the argument.
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29 Sep
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September 29, 2001

On John Kay’s Bookshelf – Archive page

Books that John has reviewed in the past...
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31 May
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May 31, 2000

Buyers must master art of the particular

If stock-picking fails to beat the index, why should picking companies? It won’t, unless mergers carefully match the firms involved.
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17 May
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May 17, 2000

Mechanics of the market

Efficient markets make money for market participants, but not for market makers. That is something the enthusiastic promoters of B2B exchanges have yet to understand.
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05 Apr
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April 5, 2000

Downside of regulation

There are many things wrong with British banks, but contrary to the Cruickshank Report, the fact that they make profits is not one of them.
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01 Mar
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March 1, 2000

Spanner in the works

The proposal to extend the Droit de Suite amounts to a subsidy of successful artists by unsuccessful ones.
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27 Oct
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October 27, 1999

Tracking the net effect of innovation

A network industry which fundamentally changed the way we live, followed by a speculative bubble: but how much would you have made if you’d got in right at the start with Great Western Railways?
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13 Oct
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October 13, 1999

Beating the west at its own game

Commercial success with innovation depends less on the innovations themselves than on the other qualities of a firm. Sony’s use of Bell Labs technology is the classic example.
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26 May
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May 26, 1999

The myth of excellence

In the black-and-white world of business opinion, Marks and Spencer is now firmly out of fashion. But corporate success depends on establishing and defining one’s own self.
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03 Mar
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March 3, 1999

Where size is not everything

Concentration in the car industry is increasing as the market goes global: a common story, and an untrue one.
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