Young, Poor and Totally Screwed

Why are so many young people in the world’s richest countries experiencing rising despair—overqualified, underpaid, and priced out of life?

Young, Poor and Totally Screwed is the eye-opening new book from the author of Bluff Your Way in Economics. It’s a sharp, entertaining, and unflinching look at how an outdated economic system has failed young people—and how that failure is now reshaping politics, society, and the planet.

For anyone angry about inequality and terrified about what comes next, this is your essential guide to understanding the roots of the crisis and reclaiming the future.


“This book is a crucial read for all those wanting to come to terms with the limits of monetary policy and the growing challenge of intergenerational inequality.”

Mona Dohle, Editor Net Zero Investor

The bloke who wrote the book...takes the crushing economic injustices that face young people very seriously. He’s right and there’s a side of me that sides with him..... Stuart Trow is an old Pension Play goer! He’s sold a lot of books.

Henry Tapper, Executive Chair, AgeWage

Stuart Trow's life has been defined by economic failure. He is consumed by how humanity has become characterised by intergenerational strife, economic disaster 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. Why do people consistently live and vote in ways so clearly at odds with both economic theory and their own best interests?His 100,000-selling Bluff your way in Economics was a bold and humorous take on the parlous state of modern economics. This new book distils three and a half decades 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. One misstep here crashes markets and can condemn an entire generation.His research contributions range from seeing through the veneer of innovative financial products spawned by reckless monetary policy to forensically unpicking the causes of economic crises.When he's not obsessing about why the rich always win, he's a widely published opinion columnist and sometime radio show host. He is married to his inspiration, Vicky, and together they have received a life lesson in how much more difficult things are for their offspring, Georgie and Lewis, than they had been back in their day.He is also a 4th Dan karate black belt.