David McWilliams | Economist
Sep 12, 2024 · 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 the world."
Articles - David McWilliams
Inheritance is not just a family affair – it’s a critical societal issue. David McWilliams, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an economist, writer and journalist.
Money - David McWilliams
In 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
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.
Ireland is ‘dangerously lopsided’. Galway and Limerick are …
Sep 27, 2024 · On 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 ...
Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and …
Aug 30, 2024 · The problems facing the Irish economy are supply bottlenecks, labour shortages and degraded State capacity to deliver large projects. If you doubt this, consider the fact that Government spending has ballooned by 47 per cent from €71 billion to €105 billion over the last five years. How can we have spent so much money with so little to show ...
After 30 years of relative success, is Dublin city going backwards …
Aug 19, 2024 · After 30 years of relative success, are we going backwards again? The data isn’t reassuring. Dublin’s hospitality sector experienced a 2.5 per cent decline in entertainment spending at hotels, bars and restaurants during the first quarter of 2024 – the most significant contraction since the tail-end of the pandemic in 2021.
Speaking - David McWilliams
To 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.
Many ‘real jobs’ of the past are extinct, replaced with roles nobody ...
Jul 15, 2024 · Consider the way technology has changed real jobs in the past 30 years. In 1999 there were 50,820 telephone operators working in the United States. They are gone. Automation has destroyed machine-tool operators and sheet-metal workers, as well as many more jobs in manufacturing. Think about typists.
Fundamental differences over economics may damage EU-wide …
Jun 28, 2024 · In contrast to Emmanuel Macron, who more or less tells pressed French workers to get on their bike, find a better job, work harder and man up, Le Pen ’s real talent is empathy. She tells aggrieved workers that she feels their pain and will help them; precisely how is a matter of conjecture. When you look at her party’s plan, it is run through with fiscal populism.