Quote:FT Recommended Book on Global Trade War

Why Politicians Lie About Trade reveals how international trade really works - the roadblock tariffs, the hard-won deals and the damaging disputes.

Written with the expectation that the US would trigger a global trade war, this book takes readers on a revealing and sometimes funny tour of the shadowy workings of the $32 trillion-a-year international business that puts goods on our shelves and food in our mouths.

Using clear writing and lively case studies, former trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski reveals the underlying political and geographical forces that shape the impact of cross-border trade on food, jobs, gender, conflict, climate change and many other issues.

And he reveals what politicians cover up about the system - and why it matters to your world.

In short, Why Politicians Lie About Trade contains everything you need to know about the tricky network of imports and exports that rules our world - and is an ideal companion to popular business books like How to Lie With Statistics, Taxtopia and Freakonomics.

Heayweight publications such as the Financial Times and the World Trade Review have endorsed the book, along with popular authors Ian Dunt, James O'Brien and Rory Stewart.

Recommended by The Rest is Politics podcast.

Top of the FT's Recommended Books on the Global Trading Crisis