Stuart Trow

Stuart Trow is consumed by how humanity has become characterised by intergenerational strife and financial fragility.

As an econometrics student at the London School of Economics in the 1980s, he was struck by how poorly economics described real life. Specifically, why do people live and vote so clearly at odds with both economic theory and their own interests?

His 100,000-selling "Bluff your way in Economics" was a bold and humorous take on this parlous economic state.

His latest book "Young, Poor and Totally Screwed" distills 35 years spent in financial markets, rubbing shoulders with capitalism’s most rapacious winners and Nobel Prize winners alike. This shadowy space between theory and reality is where the real economics occurs.

When he’s not obsessing about why the rich always win, he’s an author and widely published opinion columnist. Married to his inspiration Vicky, they have two children who know all about intergenerational disadvantage.

He is also a 5th Dan karate black belt.