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.
If we want less strain on capacity, we should limit immigration to …
In April 2022 the Housing Commission estimated a housing deficit of 256,000 homes and the figure has only grown Demography is destiny. The single most important statistic in any developed economy is the population size. When planning for the future, the most critical forecast concerns the number of ...
Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode …
2024年12月6日 · 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.
No single location captures global nature of Irish economy more …
Connectivity is key to a small, open economy. The more connections the better. At a time when many are worried about Ireland’s exposure to a global economy that may be hurtling headlong towards protectionism, be reassured that the airport’s myriad of destinations is …
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 ...
Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and …
2024年8月30日 · 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.
David McWilliams
If the 2024 election result marked stability and conservatism, the biggest gig of the year underscored that same middle-brow innocuousness. Taylor Swift tops the economic charts, electoral victory for Centrist Dads and Apple’s awkward €13bn
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.