David McWilliams | Economist
WEBDavid 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 the world."
Articles - David McWilliams
WEBIn today’s Ireland, the rich live in houses that were built for the poor. David McWilliams, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an economist, writer and journalist.
About - David McWilliams
WEBDavid 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 …
Ireland is ‘dangerously lopsided’. Galway and Limerick are …
WEBOn Friday morning, again in cheerful sunlight, the liveliness at the core of Galway city evoked a different size and style. These two cities, Limerick and Galway, are essential to Ireland’s future development. The western seaboard is Ireland’s economic secret weapon and, if planned properly over next 50 years, development of the west could ...
Money - David McWilliams
WEBIn his illuminating, entertaining and often surprising book, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money – from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to coins in Ancient Greece, from mathematics in the medieval Arab world to the French Revolution, and from the emergence of the US dollar right up to today’s cryptocurrency.
Podcast - David McWilliams
WEBThe 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 …
Ireland has an almost embarrassing abundance of revenue …
WEBJul 19, 2024 · Labour won 34 per cent of all votes but now commands about 64 per cent of the 650 seats. Meanwhile, the Tories with 24 per cent of the vote secured just 121 seats – their worst result since 1761. Only the Liberal Democrats – with 12 per cent of the vote and 11 per cent of the seats – look representative. The story that no one really wants to talk about is the re-emergence of Ukip in the ...
After 30 years of relative success, is Dublin city going backwards …
WEBAug 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.
Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and …
WEBAug 30, 2024 · Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and fall in the years ahead. From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient aggregate demand, but …
Speaking - David McWilliams
WEBTo book David McWilliams for speaking engagements, please reach out to Rani at [email protected]. David has written four bestsellers, presented award-winning documentaries and has even brought economics to the stage, at Ireland’s Abbey Theatre.. He is very active on social media and is the third most widely followed economist in the world with 238,000 Twitter followers.