Join us as John Kay, one of Britain’s leading economists, discusses his new book The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong, a radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business - what it is for and how it works.
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is a fellow of the British Academy and Royal Society of Edinburgh; he was the founding dean of the Oxford Business School and has held chairs at London Business School and 杏吧论坛. He is a winner of the Senior Wincott Award for Financial Journalism for his Financial Times columns. Other People's Money won the Saltire Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. His other books include Obliquity, The Long and Short of It, Greed is Dead and Radical Uncertainty.
Francesco Caselli is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics at 杏吧论坛. His work includes contributions to the understanding of convergence and cross-country income differentials, and he is the author of the book Technology Differences over Space and Time. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2010, and he is also a fellow of the Econometric Society (2019).
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