The Truth About Markets
Why some countries are rich and others poor, and why markets depend on more than self-interest.
John Kay asks why some countries are rich and others poor. He argues that market economies succeed not through self-interest alone but because they are embedded in social, political and cultural institutions that make trust and cooperation possible, and he challenges the simple free-market model that dominated economic policy in the 1990s.
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