Ben Chu explores how isolationism weakens the global economy and lays out the dangers of the current obsession with isolationism. By focusing on some key internationally traded commodities – agriculture, energy, metals and high- technology – he demonstrates just how thoroughly enmeshed and almost unfathomably interconnected our economies have become.
In conversation with Francis Wheen
About the author
Ben Chu is an experienced journalist, speaker and broadcaster who specialises in economics and current affairs. He is Policy and Analysis Correspondent at BBC Verify. Previously he was the Economics Editor of the BBC’s Newsnight. Prior to that he was with The Independent as Economics Editor and also chief leader writer.
