David McWilliams | Economist
WEBSep 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
WEBFundamental differences over economics may damage EU-wide right-wing alliance. David McWilliams, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an economist, writer and journalist.
Here’s an ‘epic’ idea to unlock Cork’s potential
WEBFrom an exclusively economic perspective, Cork has lots going for it. The latest figures show that the jurisdiction’s second-largest and fastest-growing city has a population of 210,000, rising to 305,000 in the broader metro area. The county contributes 19 per cent of national gross domestic product and has the fourth-highest disposable income per capita in …
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.
Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and …
WEBAug 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 ...
Ireland is ‘dangerously lopsided’. Galway and Limerick are …
WEBSep 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 ...
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 …
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 …
Today’s children could be worse-off than their parents - David …
WEBAug 12, 2024 · The Americans had their American Dream in the 1950s and 1960s, where children were likely to end up better off than their parents. These are the Boomers, much maligned by the younger and poorer Millennials and Generation X, largely because incomes are stagnating across America. For example, 90 per cent of …
Aer Lingus pilots are unlikely revolution leaders but wages will …
WEBJul 5, 2024 · Looking ahead, reasonably well-off pilots are unlikely standard bearers for the downtrodden, but they are the Donnybrook Fair battalion of an Aldi revolution, where the people who worry about the cost of their weekly shop are motivated to question why they aren’t benefiting from our roaring economy. For social peace, wages will have to rise.