
Frank Trentmann
Frank Trentmann is Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Free Trade Nation.
Frank Trentmann is Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Free Trade Nation.
From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?