David McWilliams – författare

Meet the Pope’s Children - the new Irish generation, born either side of the Pope’s visit, who have been squeezed into the middle and lifted up by the Celtic Tiger.David McWilliams’ brilliant, bestselling survey of Ireland today is a celebration of success. He takes us to Deckland, that suburban state of mind where you’ll find the Kells Angels, those out-of-town commuters who are the cutting edge of the new prosperity. He introduces the HiCos – the Hiberno-Cosmopolitans – the elite whose distance from Deckland is measured in their cool sophistication, their ability to feel at home equally on the Boulevard Saint-Michel and on Hill 16.The Pope’s Children is an antidote to the endless pessimism of the Commentariat, official Ireland’s gloomy opinion mongers, forever seeing a glass half empty that is in fact three-quarters full. There is a vast surge of ambition, new money, optimism and hope out there. That’s the real story: The Pope’s Children tells it with style.

After ten years of a boom and on the eve of a downturn, Irish society has been turned on its head by a Generation War. The clear winners have been the middle-aged Jagger Generation, enormously enriched by the property boom, while the younger generation – the cash-stripped Jugglers – will be badly exposed as the credit wave recedes.Then there are the Bono Boomers, wedged between the winners and losers, who are not about to grow up just because the economy is doing badly, preferring instead to enjoy life as permalescents – a permanently adolescent generation, too young to be old, too old to be hip.As the Jaggers, Jugglers and Bono Boomers struggle to maintain their slice of a diminished pie, David McWilliams explains how it's time to take stock, learn from history and harness the collective power of past generations. He argues that if Ireland can exploit its unique ecomonic resource – it's global tribe – Ireland as a nation will be reinvigorated. He believes that now is the time to play the Generation Game.

*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ PROFESSOR BRIAN COX‘Exceptional’ FINANCIAL TIMES ​‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ PETER FRANKOPAN‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS_______________________________________________________ MONEY.The object of our desires.The engine of our genius.Humanity’s greatest invention.Money is everything. It brings freedom and it takes it away. It inspires and corrupts us. But what is money? Is it the main thing holding us back from utopia or is it the one constant that’s driven us to success? 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. Along the way, we meet a host of characters who have innovated with money, disrupting society and transforming the way we live. Like humanity, money is ever changing, adapting to its time and circumstances. The question is, over the last 5000 years, have we changed money or has money changed us? Money tells an astonishing new story of our species. Taking the reader on an epic journey through the history of money, McWilliams reveals its fundamental role in our society._______________________________________________________‘An impressive journey that fizzes with facts’ ECONOMIST‘An eye-opening history of what makes the world go round’ EVENING STANDARD‘David McWilliams is the best explainer of economics I know’ SIMON KUPER‘Compelling, funny and original’ KATJA HOYER‘If, as David McWilliams complains, economists take the fun out of money, then he is the exception that proves the rule: a man who could not write a boring sentence if he tried’ TOM HOLLAND

*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE OBSERVER, ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES AND PROSPECT‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ PROFESSOR BRIAN COX‘Exceptional’ FINANCIAL TIMES ​‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ PETER FRANKOPAN‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS_______________________________________________________MONEY.The object of our desires.The engine of our genius.Humanity’s greatest invention.From clay tablets in Mesopotamia to today’s cryptocurrency, global economist David McWilliams takes us on an epic journey of innovation, disruption and transformation that is an astonishing new history of our species.The question is, over 5,000 years, have we changed money – or has money changed us?_______________________________________________________‘A fun history of money told through the stories of the chancers, cheats, scoundrels and geniuses who made it happen’ KATIE MARTIN‘An impressive journey that fizzes with facts’ ECONOMIST‘An eye-opening history of what makes the world go round’ EVENING STANDARD‘Compelling, funny and original’ KATJA HOYER‘If, as David McWilliams complains, economists take the fun out of money, then he is the exception that proves the rule: a man who could not write a boring sentence if he tried’ TOM HOLLAND

*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE OBSERVER, ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES AND PROSPECT‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ PROFESSOR BRIAN COX‘Exceptional’ FINANCIAL TIMES ​‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ PETER FRANKOPAN‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS_______________________________________________________MONEY.The object of our desires.The engine of our genius.Humanity’s greatest invention.From clay tablets in Mesopotamia to today’s cryptocurrency, global economist David McWilliams takes us on an epic journey of innovation, disruption and transformation that is an astonishing new history of our species.The question is, over 5,000 years, have we changed money – or has money changed us?_______________________________________________________‘A fun history of money told through the stories of the chancers, cheats, scoundrels and geniuses who made it happen’ KATIE MARTIN‘An impressive journey that fizzes with facts’ ECONOMIST‘An eye-opening history of what makes the world go round’ EVENING STANDARD‘Compelling, funny and original’ KATJA HOYER‘If, as David McWilliams complains, economists take the fun out of money, then he is the exception that proves the rule: a man who could not write a boring sentence if he tried’ TOM HOLLAND

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