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He cites Eurostat figures which indicate that Ireland is just above average in terms of equality by one type of measurement. McWilliams also argues that Ireland's wealth is becoming more evenly distributed. Generally, McWilliams is an admirer of the free-market ideas of monetarist school economist Milton Friedman, as 'very much the kernel of most mainstream economic thinking these days', even if Friedman was 'not always spot-on'. McWilliams has also hosted Leviathan: Political Cabaret, a live discussion and satire event which has featured at the Electric Picnic festival in 20.

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The book is accompanied with a three-part television documentary series of the same name. It discussed many of Ireland’s ailments, including the predominance of property in the economy of the Republic of Ireland and the relation of Ireland to Europe and the world. McWilliams' subsequent book The Generation Game was launched in mid-September 2007. Publisher John Wiley & Sons picked up North American rights to The Pope's Children and published the new edition in the United States in February 2008 with a new foreword. The book has attracted controversy because of claims, published on 29 January 2006 by the newspaper Ireland on Sunday, that it is based on a book written in 2000 by David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise – The New Upper Class And How They Got There. It was presented by David McWilliams and based on his book, The Pope's Children. In November 2006, RTÉ One broadcast In Search of the Pope's Children, a three-part series examining the economic and social landscape of modern Ireland.

In February 2006 he wrongly accused fans of Shamrock Rovers of instigating the 2006 Dublin riots. Past articles from the paper are available from his website, as well as his monthly subscription newsletter, The David McWilliams Agenda. He is also a regular columnist in The Sunday Business Post and Irish Independent newspapers. Soon after, McWilliams started presenting The Big Bite, a topical afternoon discussion programme on the television station RTÉ One. He hosted the breakfast show on NewsTalk 106, a Dublin radio station, from the station's beginning in 2002 until the station replaced him by Eamon Dunphy in September 2004. He presented a current affairs programme called Agenda on TV3 and has also presented that station's coverage of the Irish General Election in 2002. Since returning to work in Ireland in 2002, McWilliams has been mostly working in journalism and the media. From 1999 to 2002, he was an emerging markets strategist with a New York-based hedge fund, Rockwest Capital. At the ages of 30-31, still in London, McWilliams worked for Banque Nationale de Paris. At 27, McWilliams moved to London to work at UBS in emerging markets analysis. 1990 through 2002īetween 19 he worked as an economist at the Central Bank of Ireland. He then graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a degree in economics, as well as from the College of Europe, Belgium (late 1980s). McWilliams attended Blackrock College in Dublin. He is married to Sian Smyth, a former Corporate Lawyer, from near Belfast, Northern Ireland. His Cork-born mother was a teacher in Bray. His father, of Scottish descent, worked in a Chemical and Paint factory but was unemployed for long periods while David was growing up. McWilliams was born in Dun Laoghaire in 1966 and was raised in Windsor Park, Monkstown, Dublin. He has also expressed a number of ideas about political reform, including extending the vote to the Irish diaspora. McWilliams has also called for a different approach to the current crisis in Ireland, including a demand for a more aggressive negotiating stance with the European Union, the creation of an alliance between Ireland, Greece, Portugal and other debtor nations, default on the Irish bank debts (€97 bn) held by the ECB and exploiting the deposits of multinational companies in the IFSC as a stimulus. McWilliams has called for a radical change in currency, arguing that Ireland should abandon the Euro project and establish a new punt. More recently, he has become a broadcaster and documentary-maker with TV3 and RTÉ, as well as publishing three books, The Pope's Children, The Generation Game, and Follow the Money. McWilliams has worked with as an economist with Central Bank of Ireland and as a banker with UBS bank and the Banque Nationale de Paris.

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and College of Europe, Belgiumĭavid McWilliams (born 1966) is an Irish journalist and economist. For other people named David McWilliams, see David McWilliams (disambiguation).