2024:06 The Problem of Success and Why We Need To Change Our Minds

The David McWilliams Podcast

EpisodeJan 18, 202434m

2024:06 The Problem of Success and Why We Need To Change Our Minds

The David McWilliams Podcast

EpisodeJan 18, 202434m

Ireland wasn't ready for the economic success we have experienced over the past 40 years. However, with success comes more social responsibility that the Irish government hasn't been able to meet. We weren't ready for the combination of a population boom, multinational investment, income to rise, and housing demand to increase as a result. We are now at an inflection point. We have no choice but to reframe our society and how we look at housing, the other option is social chaos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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.That will be our motto.Every week we are going to tease out some big economic or political issue facing us, not just here in Ireland but in Europe and further afield. Globalisation has brought us all toge...

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