David McWilliams: Money

Global economist David McWilliams presents his mould-breaking new book and unlocks the mysteries of money.

What is money, how does it work and why does it matter? David McWilliams answers all three of those questions while taking us on money’s epic, breathlessly entertaining journey across the world.

The story of money is the story of our desires, our genius and our downfalls. Money has shaped the very essence of what it means to be human. We can’t hope to understand ourselves without it. And yet despite money’s primacy, most of us don’t truly understand it.

David McWilliams is a global economist, writer, and broadcaster whose unique ability to communicate complex societal and economic structures is unparalleled. Having worked at the Central Bank of Ireland, he became a faculty member at Trinity College, Dublin Business School.

He’s been described as being to economics what David Attenborough is to the natural sciences and Brian Cox is to physics.