Paul Collier (Author)
Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Oxford
University's Blavatnik School of Government. He is the author of
The Future of Capitalism (Handesblatt Prize) and The Bottom Billion
(Arthur Ross Prize) both widely translated. He works with
governments and communities around the world. A communitarian, he
was awarded the Adam Smith Prize by Glasgow's Philosophical Society
(2023) and the Global Citizenship Award by Belgium's cooperative
movement (2018).
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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