London’s rise from sewer to spectacle
The Victorian legacy provides a timely lesson in grand vision and design
- Editorial Underground fever
- Lex London Underground’s 150th birthday
John Kay has been writing a column on economics and business since 1995. He is currently a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He also had a career in the policy world which established the Institute for Fiscal Studies as one of the most respected think tanks, and a business career.
John has published many books, including Foundations of Corporate Success (1993), The Truth About Markets (2003) and The Long and the Short of It: Finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry (2009). His latest book, Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly, was published by Profile Books in March 2010.
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The limits of what money can buy
What criteria determine which goods are properly valued and which not?