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 …
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 ...
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.
Inheritance is not just a family affair – it’s a critical societal issue
2024年8月2日 · Kamala Harris’s father, Donald Harris, an eminent economics professor at prestigious Stanford University in California, was described by the Stanford Daily in 1976 as “ a Marxist scholar . . . too charismatic, a pied piper leading students astray from neoclassical economics ”. Dr Harris was critical of mainstream economic thinking, which for decades had argued that free markets would ...
Just think what might have happened if Hitler’s money had fallen …
2024年9月12日 · Hitler understood what happens when money loses value and planned to drop millions of pounds all over Britain at the height of the second World War. He lived through the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic and was aware that money is a weapon like no other. He understood the phenomenal power of money: undermine money …
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
After 30 years of relative success, is Dublin city going backwards …
2024年8月19日 · 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.
I don’t think sanctions on Israel are imminent, but things can …
2024年10月18日 · Thirty years ago, the Israeli economy was beginning to transform itself from a quasi-socialist, inward-looking, second-rate entity, traumatised by hyperinflation, into the high-tech, high finance, trading machine it is today.
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.
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.