David McWilliams: Money
Global economist David McWilliams presents his mould-breaking new book and unlocks the mysteries of money in conversation with Gillian Tett.
The story of money is the story of our desires 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.
Gillian Tett is a columnist and member of the editorial board for the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America’s Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a bestselling and award-winning author of four books.
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