David Lewis Warsh (born May 25, 1944) is an American

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and

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who has generally covered topics in

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and

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. Since 2002, he has written and published ''Economic Principals'', a weekly series of essays about economics and economists.

Early life and education

Warsh was born in

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, the son of Leo George and Annis Meade Warsh. He graduated from

Lyons Township High School Lyons Township High School (often referred to as LTHS or simply LT) is a public high school located in Western Springs, Illinois (South Campus), and also in La Grange, Illinois (North Campus). Lyons Township is a co-educational high school and ...

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in 1962, then from

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in 1972 (66-72).''LTHS Alumni News. Vita Plena '' (Fall 2012), p. 6

Professional career

Warsh began his career as a copy-boy at

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and as a staff reporter for ''Keene Evening Sentinel'' in

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. He served 1965-1969 in the US Navy and reported on the

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for ''

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'' and ''

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''. He worked briefly for ''The Wall Street Journal'' and the '' Wilmington News-Journal,'' then covered economics for ''

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'', before joining the staff of ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

'' from 1978. The twice-weekly column he began writing there in 1983 ran intermittently in ''

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'' and ''

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'' as well. A two-time winner of

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Gerald Loeb Award The Gerald Loeb Award, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was estab ...

, in 1977 and in 1989, he was a Fellow of the

American Academy in Berlin The American Academy in Berlin is a private, independent, nonpartisan research and cultural institution in Berlin dedicated to sustaining and enhancing the long-term intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and Germany ...

in 2004, receiving its J.P. Morgan International Prize in Finance Policy and Economics. In March 2002, Warsh left the Globe to write online a
Economic Principals
his own reader-supported website.. The focus of the website and his writing is "technical economics through the device of weekly profiles of various movers and shakers" as well as various short items. In 2012, the website had some 20,000 readers. He is home-based in

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and is a summer resident of

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near

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. In 2012,

inducted him into its Hall of Fame.

Publications

''Because They Could:The Harvard Russia Scandal (and NATO Enlargement) after Twenty-Five Year''s
CreateSpace (2018) *
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
'. New York : W. W. Norton (2006). *
Economic Principals: Masters and Mavericks of Modern Economics
'. New York : Free Press (1993). *
The Idea of Economic Complexity
'. New York : Viking (1984). * ''What Drives the Wealth of Nations?'' with David S. Landes, 7 pages, Harvard Business School Pub. Corporation (1998). * ''Inflation is Now Too Serious a Matter to Leave to the Economists: Memo to President Carter'' 21 pages (1976)

References

External links

Economic Principals

Books by David Warsh

About the Author
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