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Radical Uncertainty, coauthored by myself and Mervyn King, has been published! Order it on Amazon, or pick it up at…

Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack on Manhattan’s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and US military preparations for…

Radical Uncertainty by John Kay and Mervyn King is released 5th March 2020 in the UK. Pre-order a copy here.…

In May 2018 I and other academics discussed the role of GDP at the Royal Society. You can find a…

Socrates: “I dare say that you are familiar with Tisias. Does he not define probability to be that which the…

‘One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds…

Lynda Gratton, Eddie Obeng, and I discussed business gurus on the Radio 4’s The Bottom Line. Listen to that conversation…

Mervyn King and I recently recorded a discussion on GLS Shackle, an economist who has been largely forgotten but has…

John spoke as part of a panel at one of the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ 50th anniversary celebrations. You can…

Is cost-benefit analysis a useful tool of policy that has transformed the quality of public decision-making? Or is it a…

I was introduced to Catholic social teaching through the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre brought the concept of Aristotelian virtue…

The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Business History (15 Jan 2019) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00076791.2018.1509956.…

Introduction What do Channel 4, Companies House, the Post Office, the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Royal Mint and URENCO…

In 1991 the ebullient fraudster Robert Maxwell disappeared from his yacht and was found to have looted the Daily Mirror pension funds…

John presented a paper at the Hodge Project, an international Symposium at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport from April 9th-11th, earlier…