Articles by John Kay
John Kay / March 14, 2017
It has always been part of financial markets, from their origins in 17th-century coffee houses to the Great Crash of 2008
John Kay / January 16, 2017
Not as much as Michael Lewis thinks
John Kay / October 15, 2015
The Airports Commission model was flawed and risks steering the Prime Minister towards the wrong answer—and if Heathrow is picked, saddling customers with higher costs
John Kay / October 15, 2015
Nature is smarter than people
John Kay / September 17, 2015
We should challenge claims about the value of the financial sector to Britain
John Kay / December 11, 2014
Walter Lippmann: Public Economist by Craufurd D Goodwin (Harvard University Press, £25.95)
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Walter Lippmann was one of the greatest American journalists,...
John Kay / April 24, 2014
If Prospect held a competition for the most improbable conjunction of author and quotation, my entry would pair Goethe with the observation that “the system of book-keeping by double entry is among...
John Kay / January 23, 2014
Scotland would prosper from independence if it became more self-confident and resisted complacent self-congratulation
John Kay / November 14, 2013
Large scale poverty is the result of political and organisational failures
John Kay / August 21, 2013
Market economies are unpredictable and chaotic—and that is why we should value them