Join our panel for a breathless round-the-world tour of some of the globe’s most fascinating economies. Some emerging from crisis, some booming and yet others sadly in great turmoil and... Read More

In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world,... Read More

A Quango is defined as a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation. By the last count in 2015 there were, according to a study by the Institute of Public Administration, some 257 quangos... Read More

Is there any kind of model that fits well for the modern workplace? If so, what should it look like?  Most recently, the world of work has been based around... Read More

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Threatened by the rise of China, its own burgeoning deficits  and a President... Read More

The implications and impact of BREXIT is the most discussed topic in politics and economics today. Caitríona Cahill, Aidan Regan and Frank Crowley represent some of the smartest, interesting and... Read More

Sport is a multi-billion euro business. It has intricate ties to political and private interests. This means rich opportunities for corruption. Yet across the sporting sector, most deals and decisions... Read More

Does happiness increase with the growing wealth of a nation? And what role does inequality and gender balance play in this equation. As poorer countries become richer the difficulties of... Read More

This is a rare opportunity to meet the man who coined the term with William Strauss as part of their ground-breaking Generations in 1991. Howe compared the Millennial generation, who... Read More

Is a United Ireland now on the horizon? Demographics are pointing that way and Brexit changes everything. The political and economic pass-the-parcel continues with the poor unloved child of partition,... Read More

A hugely welcome return visitor to Kilkenomics, Jeffrey Sachs is undoubtedly one of the most important economists in the world today. He is a global leader in sustainable development, senior... Read More

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shock waves throughout global markets and economies, marking the start of the global financial crisis that crippled economies and states across... Read More

After the Cambridge Analytica – Facebook scandal, the public is now much more aware of the devious means big social network companies have used to harvest users’ data. The introduction... Read More

Kilkenomics’ essential annual look at what’s hot and what’s not in terms of investments for the coming year. From crypto to precious metals; Government bonds to pork bellies, our panel... Read More

At September’s summit meeting in Salzburg, Brexit was only the third or fourth item on an agenda that spoke of the existential problems now faced by the European Union. Once... Read More

The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith’s founding text of free market economics holds that enlightened self interest, limited government, stable currency and free trade were what was needed for countries... Read More

For centuries, the world’s great economists have attempted to understand and grapple with the problems of humans, goods and money but, too often, their ideas are hard to digest, before... Read More

Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers that represent a completely new sort of financial transaction that could soon become mainstream. Bitcoin is the world’s most famous... Read More

Donald Trump once claimed that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue in New York and not lose voters. What seems like a reckless brag in an election campaign could... Read More

There are many shifting tectonics plates in the modern world of work. The relationship between employee and employer has fundamentally changed as the gig economy grows; people are much more... Read More

So much for the modelling, predictions and planning of economics: the so-called dismal science. How could it get everything so badly wrong? But maybe it’s not economics at fault, but... Read More

It’s not just Donald Trump. The global spread of liberal democracy was meant to result in the election of liberal, pro-Western leaders. Instead, a wave of strongmen rulers has been... Read More

Fintan O’Toole is one of Ireland’s leading political and cultural commentators and a prolific author. His work has appeared in many international newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, the... Read More

Harald Malmgren began his public service to the United States in 1962 when he was head-hunted by the Kennedy administration to join Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s “Whizz Kids” group which... Read More

We have some of the best and most varied Irish perspectives in Kilkenny to offer their opinions on how Brexit is going to affect both Ireland and Ireland’s relationship with... Read More

New technology and artificial intelligence is changing the way we live and will have a huge impact on our future. From disaster relief, delivering medical aid, products and services to... Read More

Negotiations continue on the divorce between the UK and the EU amid much acrimony about who owes what to whom, what the future relationship will look like and, crucially, who’ll... Read More

The rise of populism across the world can be seen as a direct response to the failure of institutions of state and society to protect citizens from the effects of... Read More

According to a recent edition of The Economist, Dublin’s house prices are overvalued by 25% relative to long term income; and guess who predicted Ireland’s last housing bubble and bust?... Read More

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, the Skripal poisoning in the UK and the fate human rights activist Liu Xiaobo in China have all been widely condemned throughout the... Read More

Ian Hughes’ remarkable new book offers a compelling and timely account of the dangers posed by narcissistic leaders, and provides a stark warning that the conditions in which this psychopathy... Read More

The 45th President of the United States has become the country’s most controversial ever in a little over a year and a half of his reign. He is widely regarded,... Read More

Kilkenomics is delighted to welcome the return of the hugely popular and greatly enjoyable mash-up of comedy and economics in which comedians and economists attempt to apply plain speaking and... Read More

The growth of populism in elections in societies across Europe and the United States in recent years has stunned the liberal consensus and shaken the post-war Western order to its... Read More

Consistently the fastest-selling shows at Kilkenomics, our Sunday brunches return with world-class panelists and razor-sharp comedians divining the entrails of the newspapers and ruminating on the events of the weekend.... Read More

Consistently the fastest-selling shows at Kilkenomics, our Sunday brunches return with world-class panelists and razor-sharp comedians divining the entrails of the newspapers and ruminating on the events of the weekend.... Read More

In story, pictures and song – Paddy Cullivan brings alive Ireland’s first republican rebellion – inspired by the American and French Revolutions, free trade, ‘fake news’ and identity politics. Led by... Read More