David M. Smick is a financial market

Financial market

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 consultant and a non-fiction

Non-fiction

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 author. He is the Chairman and CEO of Johnson Smick International, an advisory firm in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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 where he is in partnership with Manuel H. Johnson

Manuel H. Johnson

Manuel H. "Manley" Johnson is an American economist, who served as the vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the mid-1980s. Since 1990, he has been co-chairman and senior partner on Johnson Smick International, Inc., an investments, economic and political...

. He wrote an acclaimed book The World Is Curved on perils of globalization, in response to The World Is Flat

The World Is Flat

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bestseller by Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman

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. The book received positive reviews by the USA Today

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and Forbes

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, was called "astonishingly prescient" by David Brooks

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 and "clairvoyant" by David Ignatius

David Ignatius

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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 New York Times

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, The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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and The Washington Post

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Books

• The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy (Penguin Portfolio, 2008).