John Kay
Economist and academic
John Kay is a Scottish-born economist who has taught at Oxford and London Business School. He has written books including Obliquity and The Long and Short of It.
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Born in Edinburgh, Scotland
About John Kay
John Kay was born in Edinburgh in 1948 and studied mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, where a side course in economics led him to become an economist. He then went to Nuffield College, Oxford, and took a permanent teaching post at Oxford at the age of 21. He joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a British think tank, as its first research director and later became its Director. In 1986 he took a chair at London Business School and set up the consulting firm London Economics. He has been a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, since 1970 and has written for the Financial Times. His books include Obliquity and The Long and Short of It, as well as The British Tax System, written with Mervyn King. Our catalog features Other People’s Money and The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century.