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John Kay On Smaller Government And Business Failure, And Why Greed Is Dead
John Kay is one of the UK's leading economists. His books on the tax system, corporate strategy and banking have been widely praised. He helped establish the Institute of Fiscal Studies, is a fellow at St. Johns College Oxford, and was the first dean of Oxford's Saïd Business School. In this podcast we discuss:
The importance of science for policymakers and why they do not use it more
The problem with the focus on short-term earnings
Why people are pro-social rather than individualistic
Why the 1970s failed and later why neo-liberalism failed
Why productivity could be under-estimated
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