Exile Economics by Ben Chu
A striving for national self-sufficiency is shaping up to be one of the greatest forces of twenty-first century geopolitics - Exile Economics is a provocative warning about the risks of abandoning globalisation and how isolationism weakens the global economy.
Ben Chu is a brilliant guide both to economic ideas and to hard economic realityExile Economics is a smart, vivid and humane account of the way the world really works - and the dangers that now face us all -- Tim Harford, author of HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP
In this beautifully written and researched book, Ben Chu lays out clearly and compellingly why seeking self-sufficiently, in everything from food to energy, technology to talent, is more likely to undermine than strengthen growth and security given the interdependency of modern supply chains -- Andy Haldane, former chief economist of the Bank of England & Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts
Ben Chu is one of the most outstanding economic journalists of our time. He writes with brilliant clarity, diligence and compassion -- Victoria Derbyshire, BBC Newsnight lead presenter
A superb and well-reasoned discussion of the issue that may come to affect all our lives . . . This is the book to read if you want to understand what might be about to hit the world economy -- Evan Davis
In this beautifully written and researched book, Ben Chu lays out clearly and compellingly why seeking self-sufficiently, in everything from food to energy, technology to talent, is more likely to undermine than strengthen growth and security given the interdependency of modern supply chains -- Andy Haldane, former chief economist of the Bank of England & Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts
Ben Chu is one of the most outstanding economic journalists of our time. He writes with brilliant clarity, diligence and compassion -- Victoria Derbyshire, BBC Newsnight lead presenter
A superb and well-reasoned discussion of the issue that may come to affect all our lives . . . This is the book to read if you want to understand what might be about to hit the world economy -- Evan Davis
Ben is Policy and Analysis Correspondent at BBC Verify. Previously he was Economics Editor at Newsnight, and at the Independent prior to that. Ben was nominated for Business Journalist of the Year at the 2015 British Journalism Awards and for Business Commentator of the Year at the 2018 Comment Awards. His first book Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard about China is Wrong was nominated for International Affairs Book of the Year at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards in 2014. Ben was born in Manchester to a Chinese father and British mother. He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399817165 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399817167 |
| Title | Exile Economics |
| Author | Ben Chu |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2025-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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