Simon Johnson
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295 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Simon Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And now they're saying, well, you know, if you want to put tariffs on us, Mr. Trump, there won't be any critical minerals for your defense industry, for example.
And it's going to take the Americans quite a long time to catch up with that.
So, you know, I think that's straight out of Adam Smith, actually, that strategy, Robert, which is build up a monopoly position, you know, make it...
really attractive for people, play the game their way, and then use the market power that results.
One side of my family made screws in Sheffield for 100 years.
We had a company that did that and got wiped out by some combination of automation and globalization and so on.
I think you're absolutely right to worry about that deindustrialization was handled badly and
you know, led to lots of problems and people leaving, I left.
And the same thing could happen again.
And I think we need to be honest with ourselves that you need to look the gift horse in the mouth.
If somebody is offering you something for free, you say, well, that's nice.
Where does this go from here?
And what does that do to us strategically?
What does that create in terms of economic opportunities?
Where are the good jobs?
And I think that that's the question that we just got to ask again and again.
And we do have to reposition our governments to answer that.
At the same time, I'm not in favor of just saying, well, we'll provide subsidies to our own industry or we'll have an industrial policy and pick the winners and so on, because we know that's a bit fraught and there's governance issues there.
So we are going to need some new strategies to deal with this new world.
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