"To see a modern capitalist, perhaps you should look in a mirror in the home you own. Or take a selfie."

John Kay is an economist whose career has spanned the academic world, business and finance, and public affairs. He has held chairs at the London Business School, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, where he began his academic career in 1970. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Kay is a contributing editor of the Financial Times. He is the author of several books, including Other People's Money, Radical Uncertainty, and The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century.

An unparalleled communicator of economics to a non-specialist audience ― The New Statesman

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