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cloud Bloomberg. the effort of Meghden-Dissai of the London School of Economics is hugely

readable about how we got where we are within our economic history. Lord

Desai joins us this morning and I know Guy Johnson wants to get to you on the British Cabinet

and domestic politics. Lord Desile, I've been dying to ask you off of Jacob Viner's

1946 essay on mercantilism, are we in a new mercantile age?

Is there a shift going like the social astronomy you've written about for decades?

You know, it's a very interesting movement against customs unions like the EU,

as well as against sort of joint treaties of people trading and people are breaking out to

have pair wise free trade agreements between countries which are sort of like mercantilism but we will see

you know there is a lot to go for in current situation because in manufacturing the

supply lines are going across countries it's very

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