Andrew R. W. Smithers

Andrew founded Smithers & Co in 1989. Before that he ran S G Warburg’s successful asset management business for many years (now part of BlackRock). A regular financial commentator and columnist, and author of many academic publications, he co-authored Valuing Wall Street with Stephen Wright (March 2000). He wrote Wall Street Revalued: Imperfect Markets and Inept Central Bankers (July 2009), and “Can We Identify Bubbles and Stabilize the System?” in The Future of Finance, published by the LSE in September, 2010.

Other books include The Road to Recovery: How and Why Economic Policy Must Change (September 2013), and Productivity and the Bonus Culture (July 2019).

His latest book, The Economics of the Stock Market was published by Oxford University Press in March 2022.

Although ‘retired’, Andrew continues to give his usual intellectual rigour to challenging current economic policies. Andrew seeks urgent change to accepted economic theory and the regular financial crises on which policy based on it causes.