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
Dec 27, 2024 · 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 ...
The old gatekeepers have lost control of the message. The …
What appears to have changed is something called societal norms, those things that are regarded as acceptable to say in public. Once societal norms shift, things that were thought by some to be acceptable when hushed in private but unacceptable in public – such as racism, xenophobia or anti-Semitism - become reasonably widespread.
Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode …
Dec 6, 2024 · After all, the objective of economic prosperity is to improve the day-to-day life of the citizen. That’s the name of the game. This means dramatic changes to planning and financing of homes, plus an equally significant and rapid change to planning and transport policy.
Ireland should have Apple houses as well as Guinness homes
Sep 20, 2024 · Top of the pile is, of course, Dublin’s MetroLink, which has been in the proverbial pipeline for years. The latest cost estimate for the project sits at €9.5 billion, which would eat up a large chunk of the Apple dosh.However, the benefits would be immense.
Ireland has an almost embarrassing abundance of revenue …
Jul 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 ...
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.
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.