David Smick
David M. Smick is a financial market consultant and a non-fiction author. He is the Chairman and CEO of Johnson Smick International, an advisory firm in Washington, D.C. where he is in partnership with Manuel H. Johnson.[1] He wrote an acclaimed book The World Is Curved on perils of globalization, in response to The World Is Flat bestseller by Thomas Friedman. The book received positive reviews by the USA Today[2] and Forbes,[3] was called "astonishingly prescient" by David Brooks[4] and "clairvoyant" by David Ignatius.[5]
David Smick is the publisher and the founding editor of the quarterly magazine International Economy. He also published widely, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.[6]
According to a 2012 Washington Post column by Smick, the "globalization model" that has dominated economics in the late-20th century and early 21st century is "cracking up", with "no new model to replace it".[7]
Books
- The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy (Penguin Portfolio, 2008).
References
- ↑ Biography, from the personal website.
- ↑ "'World Is Curved' offers valuable historical perspective", by Steve Weinberg, USA Today, September 22, 2008.
- ↑ "Not So Flat After All", by Bret Swanson, Forbes, September 29, 2008.
- ↑ "The Testing Time", by David Brooks, The New York Times, October 6, 2008.
- ↑ "It's Only Bankruptcy", by David Ignatius, Washington Post, October 9, 2008.
- ↑ David Smick articles, from the personal website.
- ↑ Washington Post, 17 Oct 2012 - What will replace the globalization model?