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
WEBApocalyptic scenes could await us if opioid pandemic hits amid housing crisis. David McWilliams, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an economist, writer and journalist.
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 …
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 …
Ireland should have Apple houses as well as Guinness homes
WEBApart from building affordable homes so that we have large estates of Apple houses in the same way as inner-city Dublin is full of Guinness homes, Ireland can fix our transport problems with Apple’s cash. The €13 billion could be transformative if it were also used efficiently and effectively to pursue some worthwhile capital-intensive ...
Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and …
WEBAug 30, 2024 · Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and fall in the years ahead. From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient aggregate demand, but …
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.
After 30 years of relative success, is Dublin city going backwards …
WEBAug 19, 2024 · 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.
Ireland should not be blocking data centres, we need more of them
WEBThe Irish data centre market amounted to $3.32 billion (€3 billion) in investment in 2023, and is projected to increase to $4.22 billion by 2029. Data centres contribute significantly to Ireland’s GDP. In 2020 the industry added an estimated €1.3 billion directly to the economy. Amazon’s data centres alone have, the company claims ...
Speaking - David McWilliams
WEBTo 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.
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