David McWilliams | Economist
2024年9月12日 · 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. So we’re going to have a 7m population. I’ve got a plan. 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.
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.
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.
Ireland is ‘dangerously lopsided’. Galway and Limerick are …
2024年9月27日 · 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 …
2024年8月30日 · 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 ...
Here’s an ‘epic’ idea to unlock Cork’s potential
2024年10月4日 · From 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 …
Speaking - David McWilliams
To book David McWilliams for speaking engagements, please reach out to Rani at rani@davidmcwilliams.ie. 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.
We get electronics and cars from China, so why not let them build …
2024年8月23日 · It has been estimated that each year of delay would add additional costs of between €100-€300 million to the project. The Italians have proven to be the most efficient and cost-effective builders of infrastructure in Europe. A large cross-country study, Transit Costs Project, found that on average Italian transit projects cost 57 per cent ...