Podcast | John Kay: What can the finance sector do for us? – University of Edinburgh Business School

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17 November 2015

In our latest Beyond Business talk, influential economist John Kay joins us for a critical exploration of modern finance. Listen as he asks: What is it all for? Does it create wealth, or take other people's money? And: Why did we bail it out when it failed us?

We depend on the finance sector. Yet the majority of its activity revolves around lending within it.

In this joint event with the he talks financial systems, casino banking and taxpayer bailouts. And asks: What does it all mean for us?

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