David McWilliams | Economist
WEBDavid 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."
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 …
Articles - David McWilliams
WEBIn today’s Ireland, the rich live in houses that were built for the poor. David McWilliams, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an economist, writer and journalist.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Ireland should not be blocking data centres, we need more of them
WEBSep 6, 2024 · The 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 ...
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 …
A small town in Co Kerry and a formula for rejuvenating rural Ireland
WEBMay 21, 2024 · This week, a letter from Kenmare to the Editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has been torn out of a once-bustling town as businesses shut and footfall declines, while commercial rates rise. As more businesses close, the rates on the remaining businesses must rise in order to finance the same level of local services.