John Kay (economist)

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John Kay (2012)

John Anderson Kay (born August 3, 1948 in Edinburgh ) is a British economist.

Life

John Kay attended the Royal High School in Edinburgh . He studied economics at the University of Edinburgh and Nuffield College and was a tutor in economics and a fellow at Oxford University from 1971 to 1978 .

Kay became a staff member and then director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 1979, succeeding Dick Taverne . In 1986 he founded the consulting firm London Economics and taught at the London Business School . In 1997 he became director of the newly established Saïd Business School , but stepped down in 1999. Kay is visiting professor at the London School of Economics . Kay is networked several times, for example with the Think Tanks Policy Network , the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Re-Define .

Kay writes popular science books on current economic problems and has a regular column in the Financial Times . In 2015 he put forward the thesis that the financial industry has only been concerned with itself for 40 years and has contributed nothing to the functioning of the real economy.

Honors

Kay has been Commander of the Order of the British Empire since 2014 . Since 2010 Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation , since 2009 Honorary Fellow of the CFA Society of the United Kingdom , since 2008 Honorary Doctor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1999 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 1997 a Fellow of the British Academy .

Kay also received various awards, including the Viipuri Prize from Lappeenranta University of Technology in 2012 and the “Advocacy Award for Responsible Capitalism” from FIRST Magazine (Forum For Decision Makers) in 2013 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Other People's Money . London: Profiles, 2015
  • Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly . London: Profiles, 2010
    • Obliquity: the art of the detour or how best to achieve your goal . From the English by Franka Reinhart. Munich: Dt. Paperback publishing, 2011
  • The long and the short of it: Finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry . 2009
  • Everlasting Light Bulbs . London: Erasmus, 2004
  • The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich but Most Remain Poor . New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 2004
  • The Business of Economics . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
  • Why Firms Succeed . New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
  • Foundations of Corporate Success . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993
  • with Dieter Helm , David Thompson (Eds.): The Market for Energy , 1989
  • with Mervyn King : The British Tax System . 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f John Anderson Kay's curriculum vitae on his website; accessed on October 6, 2015.
  2. ^ Pietra Rivoli : The real financial bubble , review, in: Financial Times , September 26, 2015, p. 9
personal data
SURNAME Kay, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kay, John Anderson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh