David Warsh is a journalist and author who has generally covered topics in economics and finance. Since 2002, he has written and published Economic Principals, a weekly series of essays about economics and economists.
Warsh is a 1966 graduate of Harvard College. He is home-based in Somerville, Massachusetts and is a summer resident of Portage Point near Onekama, Michigan.
For more than 20 years, he covered economics for The Boston Globe. Before that he reported on business for Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Wilmington News-Journal and, from Vietnam, for Pacific Stars and Stripes and Newsweek. A two-time winner of financial journalism’s Gerald Loeb Award, he was a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin in 2004.
In March 2002, Warsh's bi-weekly column in Forbes Magazine and The Boston Globe moved from print media to his own website Economic Principals, which he manages and writes. The focus of the website and his writing is "technical economics through the device of weekly profiles of various movers and shakers"[1] as well as various short items.