Two of the UK's leading economists call time on selfishness as the engine of prosperity.
Paul Collier (Author)
Paul Collier is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the
Oxford Blavatnik School of Government. He is the author of The
Future of Capitalism, which won the 2019 Handelsblatt Prize; The
Bottom Billion, which won the Lionel Gelber Prize and Arthur Ross
Prize of the Council on Foreign Relations; The Plundered Planet,
Exodus and Refuge (with Alexander Betts). Collier has served as
Director of the Research Department of the World Bank, and works
with governments around the world.
John Kay (Author)
John Kay is one of Britain's leading economists and a fellow of St
John's College Oxford. His career has spanned academia, business,
finance and public policy. He was the founding head of the Oxford
Said Business School and the Institute for Fiscal Studies -
Britain's most respected think tank. He is the author of The Truth
About Markets, Obliquity, Other People's Money and other books and
for twenty years contributed a regular column to the Financial
Times.
this thoughtful polemic... is clear, punchy and... convincing...
their breezy, no-nonsense guide is packed with excellent advice - a
plea for expertise rather than feeling, for pragmatism rather than
ideology and for listening rather than shouting.
*Sunday Times*
Two of the most thoughtful economists writing today ... Collier and
Kay are interesting on almost every subject they alight upon.
*Literary Review*
Written by two of the UK's best economists, the book attacks the
solipsistic individualism that permeates modern economics and far
too much of modern society. The book's animating idea is that
humans are first and foremost social animals. Our successes always
depend on co-operation. The authors apply this concept to our
economic, social and political institutions, which can, they argue,
only be revived by being seen as self-sustaining communities.
*Financial Times Books of the Year*
Their analysis is pitiless and compelling. This is a fine, incisive
polemic.
*Telegraph*
In a provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced argument,
Collier and Kay argue that our culture of hyper-centralisation is
choking us.
*Daily Telegraph*
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