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Obliquity (book)
Book by John Kay
Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly is a book by economist John Kay. It was inspired by an observation of the successful pharmaceutical researcher, Sir James Black:[2]
I used to tell my colleagues that if they wanted to make money, there were many easier ways to do it than drug research. How wrong could I have been! In business as in science, it seems that you are often most successful in achieving something when you are trying to do something else. I think of it as the principle of ‘obliquity’.
— James Black
The theme of the book is that businesses and other enterprises are best run by enthusiasts who pursue excellence in their speciality. Financial success then follows from this. But, if financial goals are instead made the primary objective, the business will then lose its vigour and may fail.[3]
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Biography
I have been a Fellow of St John's since 1970. After ten years as a tutorial Fellow in Economics I established the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a respected think tank, and later a consultancy business.
Research Interests
My more recent interests have been writing about economics for a popular audience, through a weekly column in the Financial Times and a series of books, of which the most recent have been The Truth about Markets (2003), The Long and the Short of It (2009) and Obliquity (2010). I have been the College’s Investment Officer for over twenty years and his investment philosophy is expounded in The Long and the Short of It, whose subtitle is ‘finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry’. In 2012 I completed a review of the performance of equity markets for the UK government. My most recent book, provisionally entitled Other People’s Money asks ‘what would a financial sector designed to meet the needs of the non-financial economy look like?’ which was published in 2015.