David McWilliams | Economist
David McWilliams is an economist, author, podcaster, journalist, documentarian and broadcaster. He hosts The David McWilliams Podcast, which aims to make economics uncomplicated and accessible, and is the founder of the world's only economics and stand-up comedy festival, "Kilkenomics" — described by the Financial Times as "simply, the best economics conference in …
Articles - David McWilliams
David McWilliams, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an economist, writer and journalist.
About - David McWilliams
David McWilliams is an economist, author, podcaster, journalist, documentarian and broadcaster. He is the founder of the world’s only economics and stand-up comedy festival Kilkenomics described by the Financial Times as "simply, the best economics conference in the world”. He also co-founded the Dalkey Book Festival, Ireland’s largest literary and ideas festival.
Money - David McWilliams
‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ The object of our desires. The engine of our genius. Humanity’s greatest invention. Money is everything. It brings freedom and it takes it away. It inspires and ...
In a too-hot Irish economy, politicians are treating voters like ...
Nov 22, 2024 · In another world we would describe this as bad parenting. In a way, the money from American multinationals, which should make us more productive and strong, is making us juvenile and weak, rendering politics – which should be serious – worryingly immature.
Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and …
Aug 30, 2024 · These are only two examples of how our legal framework allows for objections on a wide variety of grounds – ranging from procedural missteps to environmental concerns – which can easily lead to protracted legal disputes, creating a situation whereby critical housing projects, even those deemed necessary by national and local authorities, are delayed for years or sometimes abandoned altogether.
After 30 years of relative success, is Dublin city going backwards …
Aug 19, 2024 · Without jobs, the inner city shrank. Nobody wanted to live there. The inner city was a vision of urban desolation. According to a report commissioned by the Dublin Inner City Partnership: “ The deterioration of the physical environment was exacerbated by the blight caused by long-term roads proposals and by inadequate conservation policies or rehabilitation incentives.
I don’t think sanctions on Israel are imminent, but things can …
Oct 18, 2024 · Thirty years ago, the Israeli economy was beginning to transform itself from a quasi-socialist, inward-looking, second-rate entity, traumatised by hyperinflation, into the high-tech, high finance, trading machine it is today.
Podcast - David McWilliams
The aim of this weekly podcast is to make economics easy, uncomplicated and accessible. With the world at a political, technological and financial tipping point, economics has never been so important to all of us and yet, it’s made inaccessible and complicated by so many. I’ve always thought what is complicated is rarely important and what is important is rarely complicated.
Today’s children could be worse-off than their parents - David …
Aug 12, 2024 · For example, 90 per cent of American Boomers born around 1940 were earning more than their parents by the time they were 30. This figure fell to 50 per cent for those people born in 1980, who are about 40 years old today.