David E Adler

David E. Adler's previous book, Understanding American Economic Decline (Cambridge University Press), coedited with the historian Michael Bernstein, was an anthology of essays by economic historians examining America's financial problems in a historical context.

David Adler has written for Barron's, Institutional Investor, The New Republic, Psychology Today, and Financial Planning, where he is a contributing writer focusing on high net worth investing. He has a B.A. and M.A. in economics from Columbia and also studied graduate economics at New College, Oxford.

David Adler has also produced documentaries on art, American popular culture, and economics for the BBC and U.S. television. His documentary Financial Insecurity: America's Crisis in Healthcare and Retirement was shown on PBS stations in 2005. He divides his time between New York's East Village and London.