Sir John Anderson Kay, CBE, FRSE, FBA, FAcSS (born 1948) is a British economist. He was the first dean of Oxford’s Said Business School and held chairs at the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, and London Business School. He has been a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, since 1970.
Books in order of publication:
The British Tax System, (1979, and four subsequent editions), with Mervyn King.
Foundations of Corporate Success (1993)
Why Firms Succeed (1995), a slightly revised, shortened version of Foundations of Corporate Success, written for the American market.
The Business of Economics (1996)
The Truth About Markets (2003). Published in the USA in 2004 as Culture and Prosperity: Why Some Nations Are Rich But Most Remain Poor. HarperCollins.
Everlasting Light Bulbs (2004)
The Hare & the Tortoise (2006)
The Long and the Short of It: Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in the Industry (2009, 2nd edition 2016)
Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Pursued Indirectly (2010)
Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance (2015)
Greed is Dead (2020) with Paul Collier
Radical Uncertainty (2020) with Mervyn King
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century (2025)
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