EXILE ECONOMICS

What if globalisation fails

A Salon with Ben Chu

Salon / Ideas | Fri 17th Oct | 6.30-8.30pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The speaker will start at 7pm.

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Nations are turning away from each other. Faith in globalisation has been undermined by the pandemic, the energy crisis, surging trade wars and great power rivalry. A new vision is competing to replace the economic order we've known for many decades. One that leading economic journalist Ben Chu calls Exile Economics. A rejection of interdependence, a downgrading of multilateral collaboration and a striving for greater national self-sufficiency. The supporters of this new order argue it will establish genuine security, prosperity and peace. But is this promise achievable? Or a seductive delusion?

Through the stories of globally traded commodities - from silicon to steel, from soybeans to solar panels - Ben Chu illustrates the intricate web of interdependence that has come to bind nations together - and underlines the dangers of this new push to isolationism. There are far better alternatives to exile. Join Ben as he guides us to this new world in all its promise and peril.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ben Chu is one of the leading economic journalists of our time, renowned for making complex economic ideas urgently intelligible. A former economics editor at Newsnight and The Independent and now Policy and Analysis Correspondent at BBC Verify, Chu has long challenged the austerity consensus with clarity and conviction. Chu’s work is grounded in a deep moral concern for how economic narratives shape everyday lives. He 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. He was born in Manchester to a Chinese father and British mother. He lives in London.

GOOD READS

Exile Economics, What happens if globalisation fails (2025); Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard about China is Wrong (2013).

KEY LINKS

Website: Ben Chu

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ADDITIONAL INFO

FOOD & DRINK	EVENT SIZE	ACCESS
Bar & snacks	Medium (20-50)	Available on request