David M. Smick

Who is David M. 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. 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 and Forbes, was called "astonishingly prescient" by David Brooks and "clairvoyant" by David Ignatius.

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.

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".