How To Win a Trade War, with Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. As Donald Trump's tariff wars make headlines and supply chains become geopolitical battlegrounds, has global trade been irreversibly altered? On today's episode, economists Semiah Keynes and Chad Baum joined journalist Hannah Lucinda Smith to discuss their new book. How to win a trade war and how tariffs, export controls and economic rivalry are reshaping the global economy.
Let's join our host, Hannah Lucinda Smith, now with more. Samaya Keynes and Chad Baum, welcome to Intelligence Squared. So your book, How to Win a Trade War, clearly very timely. What was it that inspired you to write this book? Did it come about
when Donald Trump launched his Liberation Day just over a year ago, or was it something that had been brewing before that? Yeah, so Chad and I had been working together for years during the first Trump administration, right? So we were this kind of trade team. And back then, I think we had the idea for a book of kind of, you know, uh, the history of trade wars, um, uh, you know, one chapter per trade war. Um and then frankly, you know, Trump lost the election.
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