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THE WORLD’S FIRST FESTIVAL OF ECONOMICS AND COMEDY Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny Phone: 056 776 3837
BOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM
Welcome to the eighth edition of Kilkenomics – Europe’s first economics festival – which
brings together some of the world’s leading economists, financial analysts and media
commentators with some of our funniest, sharpest standup comedians. We’ve been called
“Davos with jokes” and we wouldn’t disagree with that assessment.
The standups put the economists under the spotlight to talk through vital issues such
as the case for a universal basic income, whether bankers can be tamed, the ongoing
housing crisis, modern education and of course America under Donald Trump.
We’re also talking Russia, post globalization, Bitcoin and Europe’s refugee crisis.
New to this year is Pitchenomics, Saturday morning shows for early birds and – by
popular demand – an added brunch on Sunday hosted by Adam Hills.
HAVE YOUR SAY:
pitch into #kilkenomics for the latest festival shenanigans!
HERE’S A TASTE OF WHAT THE PRESS HAD TO SAY ABOUT KILKENOMICS:
“Davos with jokes” “Kilkenomics is just what economics “Lenny Bruce meets John Maynard Keynes”
THE AUSTRALIAN needs: an event bridging the gap between BLOOMBERG
academic analysis and the ordinary people
“One of the oddest festivals anywhere, whose lives are turned upside down by “Wildly successful”
comedy with a pint and a point” economic mayhem.” THE GUARDIAN
UK SUNDAY TIMES the economist
“I’ve been to lots of festivals and
“An utterly bizzare idea but the public love it” “A little jewel where players manage to talk conferences, but Kilkenomics may be the
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE human without being patronising” best. More than that: it felt like democracy.”
THE IRISH TIMES Simon Kuper, FINANCIAL TIMES columnist
“Having a laugh despite the gloom”
BBC WORLD SERVICEWE’D LIKE TO THANK ALL SPONSORS FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF THE FESTIVAL IN 2017
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VENUE DETAILS
1 Cleere’s Theatre Bar
2 The Hole in the Wall
3 The Set Theatre, Langtons Ballroom
4 The Ormonde Hotel (Kilbride Suite) (Kings Suite)
5 Watergate Theatre
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Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny
Tel: 056 776 3837
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FESTIVAL TEAM
Founder Directors: Richard Cook and David McWilliams Public Relations: Conway Communications
Programme Director: Naoise Nunn Web and Print Design: RedLemonade.ie
Production Manager: Michael Burke Box Office Team: Brian Butler, Garret Brennan, Niamh Moyles,
Box Office Manager: Lilian Burke Ralph Sheehan, Paula McDonald
Festival Manager: Miriam Dunne Video production: Adrian Brett - ClickZoom.ie
Volunteers Manager: Tommie Ryan
Festival Administration: Margaret-Mary Murphy Special thanks to Colm O’Regan for programme input.
Programme subject to change; correct at time of going to print.BOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM
Peter Antonioni PRASENJIT BASU RAFAEL BEHR
is a Kilkenomics regular and is the founder and Chief Economist is a political columnist for the
co-author of Economics for at REALEconomics.com, an Guardian. He has been political
Dummies. He was educated at independent economic research editor of the New Statesman, chief
Pembroke College, Oxford and firm. He is also the author of “Asia leader writer on the Observer and
Birkbeck College, London. He is Reborn: A continent rises from the a foreign correspondent for the
currently a lecturer in management ravages of colonialism and war Financial Times in Russia and
at University College, London. Peter’s to a new dynamism”. eastern Europe. He was named
research interests are diverse Political Commentator of the Year
and include the football transfer FOLLOW PRASENJIT @PrasenjitKBasu in the 2014 Editorial Intelligence
market, the process of enterprise comment awards.
in technology markets and the
techniques and practice of the FOLLOW Rafael @rafaelbehr
arcane field of long-range
scenario planning.
FOLLOW Peter @GuerillaEcon
DANIEL BILAK BILL BLACK JUNE CARBONE
is The Director of Ukraine Invest is a Kilkenomics regular. He is is the inaugural holder of the
and Chief Investment Adviser to an American lawyer, academic, Robina Chair of Law, Science and
the Prime Minister of Ukraine. A best-selling author and former Technology at the University of
Canadian-qualified lawyer with bank regulator. He is currently an Minnesota. She is the author of From
over 25 years of professional associate professor of economics Partners to Parents: The Second
experience in Ukraine, he advised and law at the University of Missouri, Revolution in Family Law, the third
major international and Ukrainian Kansas City. Bill assisted Icelandic and fourth editions of Family Law
businesses in the energy, and French leaders responding to with Leslie Harris and the late Lee
agribusiness, infrastructure and their fiscal crises and has testified Teitelbaum, and Red Families v. Blue
technology sectors. to US Congress about the financial Families with Naomi Cahn. She is
crisis, specifically on regulatory also a member of the Yale
failures and the role of control fraud Cultural Cognition Project.
in the bubble and crisis.
FOLLOW June @carbonej
FOLLOW Bill @WilliamKBlackCONTRIBUTORS
NORAH CASEY JOHN CLEERE FRANK CROWLEY
is CEO (and owner) of Harmonia, is director of Kilkenny based Red is an economist and is lecturing
Ireland’s largest magazine company Lemonade Creative; an experienced at CUBS, University College Cork.
printing over four million magazines digital, UX and branding design Frank has a particular interest
annually for the Irish, British agency. Two years ago John initiated in cities, the creative economy,
and US market. #TechThursdayKK a well attended innovation, regional policy and
monthly meeting in Kilkenny for economic geography matters. He has
FOLLOW Norah @NorahCasey promoting and creating new tech published in many of these areas in
employment. He is also a regional international peer reviewed journals
advisor for TechIreland and an and is currently researching the
organiser of the first Google importance of creative occupations,
TechStars Startup Weekend in regional resilience and the links
Kilkenny this November. between talent, tolerance, diversity,
well-being and entrepreneurship in
FOLLOW John @redlemonade Ireland and Europe.
FOLLOW Frank @frankgcrowley
PADDY CULLIVAN CAROLINE DANIEL LIAM DELANEY
of Callan’s Kicks and Kilkenomics is a partner in the London office of is SIRE Professor of Economics at
brings you an audiovisual The Brunswick Group, an advisory the Scottish Institute for Research
spectacular on the Rising Centenary. firm specializing in business in Economics and Stirling University
Using Satire, Imagery, Historical critical issues. and Director of the Scottish
Insight and Song, Paddy reveals the Graduate Programme in Economics
10 strangest things that happened FOLLOW Caroline @carolinefdaniel PhD programme. He lectured
during our Rising, Revolution and econometrics, health economics and
Counter-Revolution. He parallels behavioural economics in University
those events’ effects on modern College Dublin and supervised
Ireland, drawing out fundamental post-graduate students in
changes that need to happen, economics and public health.
no matter what Government
we end up with. FOLLOW Liam @LiamDelaneyEcon
FOLLOW Paddy @paddycullivanBOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM
MIHIR DESAI MIKE DRIVER MARLA DUKHARAN
was born in India and raised in started, built and sold M2 before is Chief Economist for Bitt Inc,
Hong Kong and New Jersey. He is cofounding Convex Capital. Convex promoting the adaptation of
a professor and award-winning Capital helps entrepreneurs sell technology in the Caribbean to
teacher at Harvard Business School their businesses. Mike has sold 29 boost financial and economic
and Harvard Law School. His entrepreneur owned businesses inclusion and lower the cost of
scholarship on corporate finance, mainly in the tech sector in the last financial services, enabling the
international finance and tax policy four years with a collective value region to transcend the constraints
has prompted several invitations to over $1 billion. Mike is an advocate of traditional business and banking
testify before the U.S. Congress for the role that real entrepreneurs channels. Marla is recognized as a
and serves as the basis of his can play in rejuvenating economies. top economist and thought-leader
advisory role to leading global in the Caribbean, well-known for
companies and organizations. FOLLOW Mike @mdvex her monthly Caribbean Economic
Report, monitoring major economic
FOLLOW Mihir @desaimihira developments in over 20 countries.
FOLLOW Marla @Marladukharan
STEPHEN FLOOD JULIEN GARRAN KEVIN GILDEA
is the CEO of international gold After five years as a consultant with is a comedian, award-winning
broker, GoldCore.com. Stephen CRU, the commodities research playwright, performer, TV presence
has been instrumental in growing unit, Julien joined ABN AMRO as and book reviewer. Kevin is a writer/
GoldCore from humble beginnings in their global commodities & mining performer on RTE TV’s satirical
2003 to a world-renowned provider strategist. He then took on a role as sketch show Irish Pictorial Weekly.
of precious metal trading and head of European equity strategy at He was Ted Meaney in TV’s Bridget
storage services, with $140 million the same institution, following that and Eamonn and Fr Cave in TV’s
of bullion assets in storage and with a global macro strategy role on Father Ted. He performs his stand-
sales in excess of $1 billion dollars. the hedge fund desk. Julien moved up all over the global shop.
Stephen is passionate about gold, to Legal & General in 2005 as Head He is an award winning writer,
fintech and the blockchain and is of Asset Allocation, and he launched winning awards for his writing. He
an expert on precious metals and and managed its global macro fund, lives by the sea with his two cats –
related finance and economics. focussing on achieving absolute Timmy and FiscalHole.
returns, uncorrelated with the S&P.
FOLLOW Kevin @ComedyGildeaCONTRIBUTORS
HENRY LEVESON-GOWER NICHOLAS GRUEN CONSTANTIN GURDGIEV
has been a practicing economist is CEO of Lateral Economics and is is Professor of Finance (Visiting) at
and policy analyst for almost 25 a widely published policy economist, Middlebury Institute of International
years. He has worked on issues from entrepreneur and commentator who Studies at Monterey, California and
international trade and environment has had regular columns in the Adjunct Professor in Finance at
to economic and environmental Australian Financial Review, the Trinity College Dublin.
regulation design. Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
He has advised Cabinet Ministers, FOLLOW Constantin @GTCost
FOLLOW Henry @GowerHenry sat on Australia’s Productivity
Commission and founded Peach
Financial. He chairs The Australian
Centre for Social Innovation; and The
Open Knowledge Foundation.
FOLLOW Nicholas @NGruen1
LIAM HALLIGAN ADAM HILLS PATRICK HONOHAN
is among the UK’s most influential is a stand up comedian and TV is an economist who was Governor
economics commentators. He writes presenter. He has taken the UK of the Central Bank of Ireland from
a weekly column in the Sunday by storm with his own talk show September 2009 to November 2015.
Telegraph, is a resident panellist on on Channel Four – The Last Leg,
CNN-Talk and makes documentaries originally a one-off series for the FOLLOW Patrick @PatrickHonohan
for Channel 4. His latest book ‘Clean 2012 London Paralympics. Dubbed
Brexit – How to Make a success of as the nicest guy in comedy, when
leaving the EU’ was published by he is not conquering the small
Biteback in September 2017. Liam screen he is treading the boards as
has previously worked for one of Australia’s finest stand-up
The Economist, The Financial Times comedians, selling out rooms around
and Channel 4 News. the country and around the world.
FOLLOW Liam @LiamHalligan FOLLOW Adam @adamhillscomedyBOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM
KILKENNY
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small; large and medium companies an opportunity
to fast-track their business through investment and
will be offering this potentially-life-changing
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Sunday
12th November 2017
11:45am - 12:45pm
Harry’s BarCONTRIBUTORS
JOHN KAY STEVE KEEN MEHREEN KHAN
is one of Britain’s leading is an Australian-born, British- is a Financial Times reporter with
economists. His interests focus on based economist and author. He fastFT in London. She writes about
the relationships between economics considers himself a post-Keynesian, finance and economics and was
and business. His career has criticising neoclassical economics previously a business reporter
spanned academic work and think as inconsistent, unscientific and at The Telegraph.
tanks, business schools, company empirically unsupported.
directorships, consultancies and FOLLOW Mehreen @mehreenkhn
investment companies. FOLLOW Steve @ProfSteveKeen
FOLLOW John @JohnKayFT
KONSTANTIN KISIN SIMON KUPER PINCHAS LANDAU
is an award-winning Russian has been working with the Financial Born and educated in London,
comedian. He has performed all Times since 1994. He is the author Pinchas Landau has been living
over the UK and Ireland, including of several books including Football in Israel since 1976 and is one of
Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Against the Enemy (winner of the the country’s leading independent
Festival. With a background William Hill prize for Sports Book analysts and commentators on
in economics and political science, of the Year); Ajax, The Dutch, The Israeli economic and financial
he is the ideal presenter for War: Football in Europe During the affairs. Prior to establishing an
serious discussions. Second World War and Soccernomics, independent consultancy in 1997,
which he co-authored with Stefan he was for many years one of Israel’s
FOLLOW Konstantin @KonstantinKisin Szymanski. In 2008, Simon won the most prominent financial journalists.
Manuel Vazquez Montalban
prize for sports writing.
FOLLOW Simon @KuperSimonBOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM FIONA LOONEY MARTIN LOUSTEAU CORMAC LUCEY is a writer and broadcaster. She is a former Minister of Economy and is a chartered accountant based wrote Dandelions and October, both Production of Argentina. At the age in Dublin who teaches finance. enjoying very successful runs at the of 37, he was the youngest person to He served as a special adviser to Olympia Theatre, Dublin, and at The occupy this office in more than five Michael McDowell between 2002 Opera House, Cork. Are you there decades. Most recently he was and 2007. He previously worked in Garth? It’s me, Margaret enjoyed an the Argentine Ambassador to industry and in corporate finance extended run at the Olympia in 2015. the United States. both in Ireland in Germany. Prior to her debut as a playwright, she was a columnist for the FOLLOW Martin @GugaLusto FOLLOW Cormac @CormacLucey Sunday Tribune and, for the past four years, the Irish Daily Mail and the Irish Mail on Sunday. FOLLOW Fiona @fionalooney JORIS LUYENDIJK HARALD MALMGREN PIPPA MALMGREN is a London-based journalist and is a scholar, Ambassador, is an American policy analyst. She author. In 2011 Joris started a international negotiator, senior served as Special Assistant to the long-running investigation into the aide to US Congress and four President of the United States for City of London and the world of global US Presidents, advisor to many Economic Policy on the National finance on behalf of the Guardian foreign leaders and CEOs of Economic Council and is a former about how bankers can live with financial institutions and corporate member of the U.S. President’s themselves and whether the crash businesses, and frequent author Working Group on Financial Markets. of 2008 was a one-off or something of articles and papers on global She is the founder of the DRPM more sinister. His book Swimming economic, political, and Group and co-founder of H Robotics. with Sharks is about the culture at security affairs. major banks in the City of London. FOLLOW Pippa @DrPippaM Other books include ‘Hello Everybody’. FOLLOW Harald @Halsrethink FOLLOW Joris @jorisluyendijk
CONTRIBUTORS
KATIE MARTIN ANDREW MAXWELL DEARBHAIL MCDONALD
is the head of fastFT, the FT’s is renowned for his cutting edge is Group Business Editor of
breaking news service. She also comedy and intrepid social Independent News and Media.
writes for other parts of the FT, commentary, double Edinburgh Dearbhail has won a series of
mainly about markets. She was Comedy Award nominee (2007 & awards for her legal affairs coverage.
previously at the Wall St Journal 2011) and star of Sky’s John Bishop’s Dearbhail is also a former Young
and Dow Jones. Only Joking and BBC’s Live at The Irish Medical Journalist of the Year.
Apollo, host of the BBC3 Edingurgh She is a member of the Law Council
FOLLOW KATIE @katie_martin_fx Comedy Marathon and series regular of the National University of Ireland,
on Sky’s Wall of Fame. Maynooth, and holds an LL.B (Law)
from Trinity College Dublin as well as
FOLLOW Andrew @andrewismaxwell a Masters Degree in Journalism from
Dublin City University.
FOLLOW Dearbhail @DearbhailDibs
IAIN MCGILCHRIST David McWilliams JULIEN MERCILLE
is a psychiatrist and writer who is co-founder of Kilkenomics and is a columnist for The Sunday
practised in London, but now one of Ireland’s leading economic Business Post, The Journal.ie and
lives on the Isle of Skye, where he commentators. He was one of the Broadsheet.ie. He appears regularly
continues to write and make a living very few to accurately predict that on Irish television and radio as
by lecturing. He is committed to the the boom was a bubble that would an expert on current affairs. He
idea that the mind and brain can all end in a monumental crash with received his PhD in 2007 from
be understood only by seeing them bank failures, negative equity, rising UCLA in geography (geopolitics and
in the broadest possible context, unemployment and emigration. US foreign policy). Previously, he
that of the whole of our physical and He is an economist, broadcaster received an MA from the University
spiritual existence, and of the wider and bestselling author and writes of Kentucky in geography, and a BA
human culture in which they arise – columns for the Sunday Business from McGill University, Montreal,
the culture which helps to Post and Irish Independent. David Canada, from whence he hails.
mould, and in turn is moulded also runs an daily economic bulletin
by, our minds and brains. called 360 Macro. FOLLOW Julien @JulienMercille
FOLLOW Iain @divided_brain FOLLOW David @davidmcwBOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM
STEVE MOORE VIKAS NATH TOM NICHOLS
is the Director of London based think teaches at the Instituto de the author of “The Death of
tank VolteFace, curator of the Big Empresas, a business school in Expertise: The Campaign Against
Tent Ideas Festival and author of Madrid, Spain. He is also the CEO Established Knowledge and Why it
the upcoming of Brain Boxes – how for UK and Europe, Adani Group, Matters” and Professor of National
think tanks changed world. He an Indian infrastructure company. Security Affairs at the US Naval War
has spent a career working across However, most of his professional College, an adjunct professor at the
media, politics, public affairs career has been in financial services Harvard Extension School, and a
and campaigning. He was was – as an emerging markets former aide in the U.S. Senate.
Director of David Cameron’s Big strategist at several investment
Society Network, founder of Britain’s banks in the City of London and FOLLOW TOM @RadioFreeTom
Personal Best and strategic counsel New York. He also ran an emerging
to Channel 4 Television. markets fund for 5 years.
FOLLOW Steve @steve4good
NAOISE NUNN ARDAL O’HANLON COLM O’REGAN
is programme director of is an award-winning standup Comedian, columnist and
Kilkenomics. He is also artistic comedian and actor. Best known for broadcaster. He writes a weekly
director of the Cat Laughs Comedy the British television show Father column for the Irish Examiner and
Festival. He established the Ted, he has also appeared in films, has written for national publications
Leviathan political cabaret, mainly including The Butcher Boy. in Ireland and UK as well as BBC
hosted by David McWilliams and Online Colm is also a columnist with
the MindField spoken word arena FOLLOW Ardal @ardalsfolly RTE Radio 1’s Drivetime, BBC World
at Electric Picnic which has now Service’s In The Balance and BBC
been running for ten years. Naoise World News’ Talking Business. He has
has worked on a number of political also written and presented the PPI
campaigns and co-authored a book national radio award winning “Colm
with Public Accounts Committee Oregan wants a word” for Radio 1.
Chairman, John McGuinness.
FOLLOW COLM @colmoregan
FOLLOW Naoise @naoisenCONTRIBUTORS SUBTITLE KILKENNY MONDAY 20 – SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2017 WWW.SUBTITLEFEST.COM FOR TICKETS & INFORMATION
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GIDEON RACHMAN KATE RAWORTH AIDAN REGAN
is chief foreign affairs commentator (‘Ray-worth’ just FYI) is a renegade is an Assistant Professor of Politics
for the Financial Times. He joined economist passionate about making and International Relations at
the FT in 2006, after fifteen years at economics fit for the 21st century. University College Dublin (UCD),
The Economist, where he served as Her best-selling book ‘Doughnut and Director of the Dublin European
a correspondent in Washington D.C., Economics: seven ways to think like Institute (DEI). Prior to moving back
Brussels, and Bangkok. In 2010 a 21st century economist’ has been to Ireland, he was a postdoctoral
Rachman published his first book, translated into seven languages fellow at the Max Planck Institute
Zero Sum World, which predicted and was long-listed for the 2017 for the Study of Societies in
the rise in international political Financial Times & McKinsey Germany (MPIfG) and the European
tensions and turmoil that followed Business Book of the Year award. University Institute (EUI) in Italy. His
the global financial crisis. In 2016 research is focused on the study of
he won the Orwell Prize, Britain’s FOLLOW Kate @KateRaworth globalisation, European integration,
leading award for political writing. housing, industrial relations and the
welfare state.
FOLLOW Gideon @gideonrachman
FOLLOW Aidan @aidan_regan
SINEAD RYAN ANDREW SHEERIN ROBERT SHRIMSLEY
is a consumer and personal finance is a founding director of TerrorBull is the Managing Editor of FT.com.
journalist for the Irish Independent Games and a designer & theorist Before this he has served as the FT’s
and Herald newspapers and also of satirical and political games, chief political correspondent and
on RTE’s “Today with Sean O’Rourke” particularly interested in games and news editor. He writes weekly for the
and Newstalk’s “The Hard Shoulder” play as forms of subversion or protest. Notebook column, a satirical look
programmes. She worked in at the week’s news and for the FT
financial services for 15 years prior FOLLOW Andrew @sheerinability Weekend Magazine.
to becomming a columnist and
co-authored “Cents and Sensibility”, FOLLOW Robert @robertshrimsley
which teaches teenagers
about money.
FOLLOW Sinead @sinead_ryanCONTRIBUTORS
KARL SPAIN GERARD STEMBRIDGE RORY SUTHERLAND
is probably best known in Ireland is an author, playwright, is widely regarded as one of the
for his TV series Karl Spain Wants a screenwriter, director, broadcaster most creative and influential minds
Woman, which was a major success and co-creator of, among many in the advertising business, Rory
in that not only did he get huge things, the legendary Scrap Saturday Sutherland is executive creative
ratings but also found himself a satirical radio series. His most director of Ogilvy UK, part of one of
woman! He’s performed stand-up on recent book, a satirical novel called the biggest agencies in the world.
television and live all over the world The Effect of Her, was published in His sharp and witty TED talks on life
– the US, the Middle East, Australia 2014 and his hit series ‘Hiding Out’ and business have been viewed by
and the UK. He regularly does was recently broadcast on Radio 4. millions and his Wiki Man column in
corporate gigs and spends all his The Spectator is essential reading
money on sweets and comics. He has FOLLOW Gerard @mdvex for anyone with an interest on how
also performed at every Cat Laughs technology affects us.
Comedy Festival since 2002.
FOLLOW Rory @rorysutherland
FOLLOW Karl @karlkingov
GILLIAN TETT YANIS VAROUFAKIS LINDA YUEH
serves as US managing editor, is the former finance minister of is an economist, broadcaster, and
leading the Financial Times’ editorial Greece. He co-founded DiEM25 author. Linda is Fellow in Economics
operations in the region across (Democracy in Europe Movement), at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University,
all platforms. She writes weekly a pan-European, cross-border Adjunct Professor of Economics
columns for the Financial Times, movement of democrats. We’re at London Business School, and
covering a range of economic, delighted to have him back at Visiting Professor of Economics at
financial, political and social issues Kilkenomics after his sell out Peking University. She is a TV and
throughout the globe. appearance two years ago. radio presenter, including for BBC
Radio 4 and BBC World Service,
FOLLOW Gillian @gilliantett FOLLOW Yanis @yanisvaroufakis as well as having fronted BBC TV
series The New Middle Class, Next
Billionaires, and Working Lives.
FOLLOW Linda @lindayuehBOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 76 John Street, Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM Festival Planner
12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 11:45pm
Thursday 9TH NOV | | | | | | | | | | | | |
THE ECONOMICS OF BREXIT ONE YEAR ON: THE WORLD 10 YEARS AFTER
KILKENNY A GRAVE MISTAKE OR ENLIGHTENED THE CRASH: IS IT TIME TO BREATHE
THE SET THEATRE AS A SMART CITY OPPORTUNISM? EASY IN 2018?
12:30pm FREE (75 mins) 7:00pm Sold Out (75 mins) 9:45pm €20/€18 (75 mins)
IS AMERICA WORKING? THE THE END OF WORK? DOES
EVERYONE HAVE TO BE AN
HOLE IN THE WALL US ECONOMY UNDER TRUMP
8:30pm Sold Out (60 mins)
ENTREPRENEUR NOW?
10:00pm €15/€13 (60 mins)
HOW TO REALLY FIX THE
CLEERE’S THEATRE BAR HOUSING CRISIS
9:30pm Sold Out (60 mins)
12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 11:45pm
FRIDAY 10TH NOV | | | | | | | | | | | | |
NORTH KOREA ON THE BRINK? OLD ENGLAND IS DYING: IRELAND AND BREXIT:
CLEERE’S THEATRE BAR THE COST OF GLOBAL INSTABILITY THE ECONOMICS OF DECLINE AN OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE
6:45pm €20/€18 (75 mins) 8:45pm €20/€18 (75 mins) 10:15pm €15/€13 (60 mins)
SHO W YANIS VAROUFAKIS THE GREAT GAME:
KENNY INSATIABLE:
Watergate Theatre THE PAT -12:00pm
00am
IN CONVERSATION WITH
THE NEW RISE OF GREED ARE CHINA AND THE US
FRI 9: DAVID MCWILLIAMS ON A COLLISION COURSE?
FREE 9:00pm €20/€18 (75 mins)
7:00pm SOLD OUT (75 mins) 10:30pm €15/€13 (60 mins)
Theatre
The Set DOUGHNUT
BIG ECONOMIC IDEAS
WHY IS IRELAND
FOR 2018: REAL PROBLEMS
THE SET THEATRE ECONOMICS AND FAKE PROBLEMS SO BLOODY EXPENSIVE?
7:00pm €15/€13 (60 mins) 10:00pm €20/€18 (75 mins)
8:15pm €20/€18 (75 mins)
DOES SCHOOL
HOLE IN THE WALL MAKE US STUPID?
8:30pm €15/€13 (60 mins)
12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 11:45pm
Saturday 11TH NOV | | | | | | | | | | | | |
KNOWING ME, KNOWING EU, THE RAYMOND CROTTY INTERVIEW: WHEN WILL THE NEXT THE MCGREGOR EFFECT:
MACRON!: THE FUTURE OF THE FROM JFK TO TRUMP, THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HAPPEN: PUTIN AND US - THE WISDOM THE ECONOMICS OF
THE SET THEATRE EUROPEAN PROJECT ECONOMICS OF THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE AND WHY? RUSSIANOMICS OF FINANCE WINNER TAKES ALL
4:15pm €20/€18 (60 mins) 6:00pm €20/€18 (60 mins)
11:15am €20/€18 (75 mins) 1:00pm €20/€18 (60 mins) 2:30pm €20/€18 (60 mins) 9:00pm €20/€18 (75 mins)
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PUBLIC RISEOFTHEWHITECOLLARNARCOS: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: 26 + 6 = 1 TED TALKS: THE
LIFE: WHY WE CANNOT PROSPER HOW MARIJUANA BECAME THE AFTER GLOBALISATION: A SPONGERS’ CHARTER OR THE ECONOMICS OF THE THE ECONOMICS OF A FUTURE ECONOMICS OF FATHER TED
CLEERE’S THEATRE BAR WITH BROKEN COMMUNITIES HOTTEST NEW COMMODITY WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? THE LOGICAL WAY FORWARD? MODERN NEWSROOM UNITED IRELAND WITH LIAM DELANEY
4:15pm €15/€13 (60 mins) 8:00pm €15/€13 (60 mins)
12:00pm €15/€13 (60 mins) 2:45pm €15/€13 (60 mins) 6:00pm €15/€13 (60 mins) 9:20pm €16/€14 (60 mins) 10:45pm SOLD OUT (60 mins)
MOTHER EARTH: THE LUCKY COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
HOW DO WE PUT A PRICE ON AND ITS 20 YEAR BOOM: WHAT THE ECONOMICS OF
HOLE IN THE WALL NATURAL CAPITAL? ARE THE LESSONS? THE MODERN FAMILY
9:00pm €15/€13 (60 mins)
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BREAKING MILLIONS ON THE MOVE:
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UBER, AIRBNB, DELIVEROO: BITCOIN OR BUST:
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ORMONDE KINGS 11:30am €15/€13 (60 mins) DISRUPTERS OR CORRUPTERS? IS THIS THE END OF MONEY?
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THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE: UNITED IRELAND: MACRON ECONOMICS:
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THE ECONOMICS OF KILKENNY IS AMERICA WORKING? –
AS A SMART CITY THE US ECONOMY
THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER UNDER TRUMP
Once again Kilkenomics is joining forces with ‘Tech Thursday, THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Kilkenny’ for this special show. We make cities for communities One year on from the political earthquake of Trump’s election,
to come together, create culture, commerce and conviviality. has he fulfilled his economic promises to the millions of
We don’t develop smart cities in order to make buildings, blue collar workers who elected him? He’s said he’s going to
infrastructure or tech, that’s the economic side effect. How do take jobs back from overseas – including Ireland – and he’s
we take the first steps in a city like Kilkenny? Join us as we withdrawn from the Paris Agreement and threatening to do
discuss smart ideas and new technological opportunities with the same with NAFTA. Can the Donald claim credit for the fact
a specific focus on Kilkenny for better economic outcomes. that the stock exchange is at an all-time high, employment
See #TechThursdayKK on Twitter. numbers are improving and GDP is growing or would it have
happened anyway? Get unique insights from a father and
Host: John Cleere daughter who’ve served seven US Presidents as economic
Contributors: Bill Black, Steve Moore advisers between.
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Host: Konstantin Kisin
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BREXIT ONE YEAR ON:
Hole in the Wall
SOLD OUT
A GRAVE MISTAKE OR
ENLIGHTENED OPPORTUNISM?
HOW TO REALLY FIX THE
THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Britain’s exit from the EU, voted on by the British people last
year, is a game changer. Some in the UK regret the decision as HOUSING CRISIS
it becomes clear how costly it could be, while others still see a THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
gleaming opportunity. With the Germans fighting extremism at The price of 3-bed semi in Dublin is rising by €500 a month.
home, the young Macron government paralyzed, Catalonia on By Christmas the average price of a 3-house in the capital
its way out of Spain and Italy flirting with bankruptcy, might will be €450,000 – ten times the average wage. How the hell
the Brits have got out of the EU at the right time? Or are they did this happen, again? Who is benefiting and how will it all
deluded? And what effect will the Brexit have on Ireland, our end this time? If economics is the art of the possible, what are
Northern cousins and our relationship with them? the ten solutions to ensuring that everyone has a permanent,
affordable roof over their head?
Host: Gerard Stembridge
Contributors: Peter Antonioni, David McWilliams, Host: David McWilliams
Patrick Honohan, Mehreen Khan, Prasenjit Basu Contributors: Frank Crowley, Aidan Regan, Karl Spain
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THE WORLD 10 YEARS AFTER NORTH KOREA ON THE
THE CRASH: IS IT TIME TO BRINK? THE COST OF GLOBAL
BREATHE EASY IN 2018? INSTABILITY
THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER Friday 10TH November
Even in the best of times, economists generally remain staid Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump have escalated their war of
and poker-faced. Inspired by the dismal science, they’re words with veiled and not-so-veiled threats of nuclear war
there to burst any bubbles that emerge from the froth. among the personal insults, but what effect does all this have
True to form, we’ve got a gathering of the festival’s most on the global economy? Most observers believe the prospect of
eminent contributors who’ll take a critical look at what’s been a nuclear conflict is remote but how does it affect trade with
happening in local and global economics this year and sound China: a global economic powerhouse and North Korea’s only
the alarm at any danger signs. ally? And is there a point at which it could all blow up?
Host: Gerard Stembridge Host: Konstantin Kisin
Contributors: Bill Black, Patrick Honohan, Mehreen Khan, Contributors: Linda Yueh, Gideon Rachman, Pippa Malmgren,
Julien Garran, Pinchas Landau Simon Kuper, Rafael Behr
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THE END OF WORK? YANIS VAROUFAKIS IN
DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO BE CONVERSATION WITH
AN ENTREPRENEUR NOW? DAVID MCWILLIAMS
THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER Friday 10TH November
Technology is cutting out the middleman in Western economies, The swashbuckling, motor-cycle riding Greek economist and
but much of those economies are based on the middle man former finance minister is back in Kilkenny to talk Brexit,
taking a cut and, in a sense, we are all the middleman. As Trump, the EU and the international world order as well as
computers and robots take over more and more of the jobs that insights from his new book: Adults in the Room: My Battle With
human beings used to, corporations, committed to perpetual Europe’s Deep Establishment. Not to be missed.
growth and cutting costs, are getting rid of people as fast as
they can. Is this the way forward for the world of work and
Host: David McWilliams
is it sustainable? More to the point, should we embrace the
Contributors: Yanis Varoufakis
liberation that the end of wage slavery affords?
7:00pm-8:15pm (75 mins)
Host: Konstantin Kisin Watergate Theatre
Contributors: Mike Driver, Vikas Nath, Peter Antonioni, Sold Out
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10:00pm-11:00pm (60 mins)
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DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS DOES SCHOOL MAKE US
Friday 10TH November STUPID?
Economics has too often been about chasing the false goal of Friday 10TH November
GDP growth even as societies become increasingly unequal The Irish secondary school system rewards a certain type of
and we get ever closer to ecological collapse. Doughnut thinking and punishes other types of thinking. The danger
economics is all about meeting the needs of everyone on the is that it stifles creativity and contributes to groupthink at
planet within the means of the planet. The Doughnut of social the very top, which makes big policy errors more likely. But
and environmental boundaries is a playfully serious approach this system of reward and punishment begins very early. Can
to framing that challenge. Author of Doughnut Economics, Kate Ireland ever be a creative country when our school system
Raworth joins a panel to discuss a new way of talking about rewards learning by rote and punishes creativity?
economics and human progress.
Host: Fiona Looney
Host: Andrew Maxwell Contributors: Mike Driver, Cormac Lucey, Sinead Ryan,
Contributors: Kate Raworth, Henry Leveson-Gower, Caroline Daniel
Julien Mercille, Peter Antonioni
8:30pm-9:30pm (60 mins)
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OLD ENGLAND IS DYING: THE
BIG ECONOMIC IDEAS FOR
ECONOMICS OF DECLINE
2018: REAL PROBLEMS AND Friday 10TH November
FAKE PROBLEMS Once the heart of an empire on which the sun never set, the
Friday 10TH November United Kingdom now seems in danger of disintegration with
Don’t miss these brilliant minds, one of the best Kilkenomics renewed calls for Scottish independence after Brexit and a
lineups, as they convene to gaze into their tea leaves, crystal seemingly deeply divided and unequal society. How did this
balls and conjure up some predictions for how the economic happen to a country that won the Second World War, together
world will unfold in 2018 and beyond. What are the problems with the US and Russia, and helped define the world order? Is
they anticipate and what should we not worry about? Don’t Old England dying or will the giant yet awake?
miss this block-buster opener to the weekend.
Host: David McWilliams
Host: Andrew Maxwell Contributors: Robert Shrimsley, Gillian Tett, Rafael Behr,
Contributors: Patrick Honohan, Joris Luyendijk, Linda Yueh, Mehreen Khan
Martin Lousteau, Marla Dukharan
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INSATIABLE: IRELAND AND BREXIT:
THE NEW RISE OF GREED AN OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE
Friday 10TH November Friday 10TH November
30 years ago, Gordon Gekko, the anti-hero of Wall Street Our homegrown commentators and experts have worked
played by Michael Douglas, declared that “greed is good”. themselves into a frenzy analysing the implications of Brexit on
Greed, it seems, has always been with us as humans but it Ireland. Much doom and gloom is predicted with hard borders,
now pervades every aspect of human life and inequality is export tariffs and disaster for Irish agriculture among the dire
off the scale. Is it because greed feeds on human nature or consequences. But what do the experts on the outside looking
is it because the winner takes all has come to dominate all in see? Are we missing some easy wins that are right under our
economics? Is it important to tackle greed and its effects or noses or is it actually even worse than we think?
should we just give in to it?
Host: Colm O’Regan
Host: Colm O’Regan Contributors: Katie Martin, Vikas Nath, Nicholas Gruen,
Contributors: Yanis Varoufakis, Bill Black, Kate Raworth, Liam Halligan
Rory Sutherland
10:15pm-11:15pm (60 mins)
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THE GREAT GAME: ARE CHINA
WHY IS IRELAND SO AND THE US ON A COLLISION
BLOODY EXPENSIVE? COURSE?
Friday 10TH November Friday 10TH November
Did you know that a pint of milk is 38% more expensive in For almost the last century, the US has been the dominant
Ireland than in Germany? Monthly Internet access in Ireland is world power. China is now challenging that dominance
78% more expensive than in Germany, yet our wages are about economically, politically and militarily. Both countries, with
the same. How can this be? A box of 32 tampons costs €4.64 vastly different political systems, histories and values,
here and €3.20 in Dusseldorf. You get the gist, why is Ireland believe in their own exceptionalism. At the moment the public
so extortionate? Why are prices in Newry a fraction of those in discussion is about tariffs, trade and money, but when does it
Dundalk and what impact is this having on the society, the get serious and is an unthinkable conflict actually inevitable?
economy and where does all the money go?
Host: Konstantin Kisin
Host: Naoise Nunn Contributors: Linda Yueh, Robert Shrimsley,
Contributors: Cormac Lucey, Sinead Ryan, Julien Mercille, Harald Malmgren, Prasenjit Basu, Gillian Tett
David McWilliams
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KNOWING ME, KNOWING EU, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PUBLIC
MACRON!: THE FUTURE OF THE LIFE: WHY WE CANNOT
EUROPEAN PROJECT PROSPER WITH BROKEN
Saturday 11TH November COMMUNITIES
Since its birth, the European project has seemed to be in Saturday 11TH November
perpetual crisis. Now, at 60 years old; and as populist political Although the idea has been around for as long as humans, the
leaders across the EU’s member states win support with concept of social capital has re-emerged in recent years as
skeptical, anti-immigration, anti-Euro and pro-referendum an antidote to the insatiable appetite for growth and wealth
platforms; what is the future of one of the world’s most that has driven an unprecedented rise in global inequality.
ambitious economic and political experiments? Social capital is all about achieving public good through
Has the leadership of Europe now effectively passed from communities, networks and cooperation – in Ireland, we
Angela Merkel to Emmanuel Macron and what does the know it as the meitheal. Can this new approach to economics
future hold for us all? serve as a new more caring and sustainable form of human
development or is it all wishful thinking?
Host: Colm O’Regan
Contributors: Yanis Varoufakis, Gideon Rachman, Host: Naoise Nunn
Rafael Behr, Prasenjit Basu, Mehreen Khan Contributors: Simon Kuper, Nicholas Gruen, Robert Shrimsley
11:15am-12:45pm (90 mins) 12:00pm-1:00pm (60 mins)
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Taming Bankers! THE RAYMOND CROTTY
INTERVIEW: FROM JFK TO
Saturday 11TH November
Can bankers ever be tamed? From tracker scandals and
collusion at home to yet another massive debt bubble abroad, TRUMP, THE ECONOMICS OF
the financial industry is in the news again for all the wrong THE WHITE HOUSE
reasons. Globally, debt levels are now 40 per cent higher Saturday 11TH November
than they were in 2008 making the system more unstable Between them, father and daughter, Harald and Pippa
but generating more short-term profits for the banks. Here in Malmgren have served as advisers to no fewer than five
Ireland, we have seen a series of scandals where customers US Presidents: John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard
are hoodwinked and threatened by nationalised banks that the Nixon, Gerald Ford and George W Bush. Join us for this rare
customers actually own in the first place! and special opportunity to hear fascinating economic and
political insights from the heart of the most powerful office
Host: Andrew Maxwell in the world. Learn what made Presidents tick, how economic
Contributors: Bill Black, John Kay, Joris Luyendijk, realities shaped policy and how capitalism won the Cold War.
Patrick Honahan, Marla Dukharan
Host: David McWilliams
11:30am-12:30pm (60 mins)
Contributors: Pippa Malmgren, Harald Malmgren
Ormonde Kings
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MOTHER EARTH: WHEN WILL THE NEXT
HOW DO WE PUT A PRICE ON FINANCIAL CRISIS HAPPEN:
NATURAL CAPITAL? WHERE AND WHY?
Saturday 11TH November Saturday 11TH November
Natural capital is essentially the world’s stocks of natural It’s ten years since the start of the last banking crisis, so
assets which include geology, soil, air, water and all living when’s the next one coming? There are signs of potential stress
things which make human life possible. As climate change all around the world. There are the booms in property prices
continues to wreak havoc with extreme weather events in several major markets, including the UK and Ireland and
and seriously impact the global economy, how can we get there’s a surge in consumer debt everywhere. Geo-political
economists, business leaders and politicians to value and affairs are volatile with China and Russia challenging the
protect our natural resources so that we can continue to US and, sooner or later, global interest rates will have to rise.
sustain human life and growth as well as the environment? Something’s got to give, but where and how?
Host: Konstantin Kisin Host: Gerard Stembridge
Contributors: Vikas Nath, Kate Raworth, Nicholas Gruen, Contributors: Mihir Desai, David McWilliams, Daniel Bilak,
Constantin Gurdgiev, Henry Leveson-Gower Katie Martin
1:15pm-2:15pm (60 mins) 2:30pm-3:30pm (60 mins)
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BREAKING DOWN BREXIT RISE OF THE WHITE COLLAR
Saturday 11TH November NARCOS: HOW MARIJUANA
BECAME THE HOTTEST NEW
Brexit – Britain’s exit from the European Union – is the biggest
challenge faced by Britain since World War 2 and the end of
its empire. It is also one of the most serious cracks to develop COMMODITY
in the EU since its foundation. Not to mind the effect on little Saturday 11TH November
old Ireland. Those in favour, claim that Britain could be on the As more and more states in the US legalise marijuana, weed
cusp of a new golden age of international trade while those is becoming a boom industry with dozens of startups jostling
against fear marginalisation and slow decline into irrelevance. to make the most out of legal highs. How did this happen
Our no nonsense panel cuts through the bluster and breaks in a country that is notorious for its war on drugs? Will the
down the facts on what Brexit means and could mean. legalisation of marijuana and, perhaps, other drugs, lead to
better outcomes for society or will the new white collar narcos
become the new big tobacco in their pursuit of profits
Host: Colm O’Regan
whatever the consequences?
Contributors: Gideon Rachman, Cormac Lucey, Joris Luyendijk,
Rafael Behr, Norah Casey
Host: Kevin Gildea
2:30pm-3:45pm (75 mins) Contributors: Steve Moore, Bill Black, Martin Lousteau,
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PUTIN AND US – UBER, AIRBNB, DELIVEROO:
RUSSIANOMICS DISRUPTERS OR
Saturday 11TH November CORRUPTERS?
After two years of deep recession caused by depressed Saturday 11TH November
oil prices and a currency crisis, Vladimir Putin’s Russian Some of the biggest and most-hyped companies of modern
Federation is now making a slow and steady economic times are taxi companies that own no vehicles, accommodation
recovery. Having traditionally cast the US as the enemy, Russia providers that own no properties and food service companies
under Putin is making more conciliatory noises as Trump’s war that don’t make food. We’re told it’s all about the technology
of words escalates with China and North Korea. What does platform and about “disrupting” traditional ways of doing
Russia’s economic future look like and how will it business. Is this a brave new world offering better customer
affect the new world order? service and self-employment to self-starters or is it an excuse
for wage slavery and a bubble that’s about to burst?
Host: Konstantin Kisin
Contributors: Liam Halligan, Constantin Gurdgiev, Tom Nichols, Host: Colm O’Regan
Pinchas Landau, Pippa Malmgren Contributors: Mike Driver, Katie Martin, Rory Sutherland,
Caroline Daniel
4:15pm-5:15pm (60 mins)
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AFTER GLOBALISATION: WHAT
HAPPENS NEXT? MILLIONS ON THE MOVE:
Saturday 11TH November EUROPE’S NEW
REFUGEE CRISIS
Globalisation, which has been brought about by the
increasingly freer movement of people, money and ideas has
seen unprecedented resistance in recent times. The Occupy Saturday 11TH November
movement and populist political parties all over the world Recent elections in Europe have featured new and old political
have blamed globalisation for growing income inequality, parties surfing a wave of a growing unease among citizens of
environmental chaos and a breakdown in society. Is this a fair member states about the rise in immigration from the war-torn
assessment or has globalisation brought unparalleled wealth Middle East and North Africa and the economic effects on
and opportunity? And if we are to move on from it, them. What’s at the root of these historic and almost Biblical
what is the next step? scale movements of people and how should Europe respond to
the economic implications? Should our humanity and empathy
conquer our fears and are there really net gains from
Host: Kevin Gildea accepting immigrants and refugees?
Contributors: John Kay, Kate Raworth, Joris Luyendijk,
Steve Keen
Host: Adam Hills
4:15pm-5:15pm (60 mins) Contributors: Vikas Nath, Daniel Bilak, Yanis Varoufakis,
Cleere’s Theatre Bar Dearbhail McDonald, Peter Antonioni
€15/€13 (Regular/Concession)
4:30pm-5:45pm (60 mins)
Watergate Theatre
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THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE: WHY BITCOIN OR BUST: IS THIS THE
KNOWLEDGE MATTERS END OF MONEY?
Saturday 11TH November Saturday 11TH November
The collapse of support in traditional institutions across the Are blockchain-enabled currencies like Bitcoin the future of
world has happened at the same time as the explosion of the finance or a disaster waiting to happen? And what impact
Internet and access to it. Everyone, it seems, is now an expert, do these cryptocurrencies have on money and the ability to
or thinks they are. At the same time, real experts are derided, trade? Supporters are evangelical about its possibilities and
fake news abounds and ‘mainstream media’ has become a its surging share value, but detractors worry about security,
term of abuse. How did this all happen so quickly and what regulation and volatility. The rapidly rising price of Bitcoin
effect does it have on our economies when everyone knows is leading many to question if the digital currency’s
everything but actually no one knows anything at all? boom is about to bust.
Host: David McWilliams Host: Colm O’Regan
Contributors: Tom Nichols, Martin Lousteau, Rory Sutherland, Contributors: Bill Black, Marla Dukharan, Stephen Flood
Katie Martin
6:00pm-7:00pm (60 mins)
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UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME:
THE WISDOM OF FINANCE A SPONGERS’ CHARTER OR THE
LOGICAL WAY FORWARD?
Saturday 11TH November
Many of us think of finance as an industry of greed and
stupidity but is there wisdom to be found there? Based around Saturday 11TH November
Mihir Desai’s book of the same name, our panel takes a look Debate continues to ratchet up on the concept of governments
at how and when we can discover humanity in a world of risk providing their citizens with a fixed amount of money,
and return. Can bankers and financiers have any redeeming regardless of their income; and cities in Finland and the
features and how can we better connect economics and the Netherlands are already fully testing this concept. As
humanities so that we have a more empathetic world? technology and artificial intelligence begin to replace human
paid work, has this idea become increasingly urgent? Our
panel examines the pros and cons of free money for everyone
Host: Gerard Stembridge and whether it’s a noble and necessary next step for mankind
Contributors: Mihir Desai, John Kay, Henry Leveson-Gower, or a bonanza for the bone-idle.
Robert Shrimsley
6:00pm-7:00pm (60 mins) Host: Fiona Looney
The Set Theatre Contributors: Constantin Gurdgiev, Pinchas Landau,
€20/€18 (Regular/Concession) Kate Raworth, Simon Kuper
6:00pm-7:00pm (60 mins)
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THE DIVIDED BRAIN THE LUCKY COUNTRY –
Saturday 11TH November AUSTRALIA AND ITS 20
YEAR BOOM: WHAT ARE THE
In his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain
and the Making of the Western World, Iain McGilchrist presents
a groundbreaking exploration of the differences between the LESSONS?
brain’s left and right hemispheres, and how those differences Saturday 11TH November
have affected society, history, and culture. We’ve all hear the Australia has not had a recession since June 1991 and is
folk wisdom notions about left and right brained people and now just one quarter short of the Dutch record set between
what they excel at and fail at, but this is an inspirational and 1982 and 2008. The country’s natural resources including iron
thoughtful examination at the science behind it with a man ore and coal enabled the Aussies to be one of the very few
who’s mastered the study with one of the world’s economies to grow through the 2008 global financial crisis. So,
leading advertising gurus: the right-brained what’s the secret? Is it just a vast wealth of nature’s bounty or
(or is it left?) Rory Sutherland. is there something more at work?
Host: Naoise Nunn Host: Adam Hills
Contributors: Rory Sutherland, Iain McGilchrist Contributors: Nicholas Gruen, Steve Keen, Peter Antonioni
6:45pm-7:45pm (60 mins) 7:15pm-8:15pm (60 mins)
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UNITED IRELAND: TRUMP: ONE YEAR ON
AT WHAT COST? Saturday 11TH November
Saturday 11 November
TH One year on from his shock election as US President, how is
The UK’s exit from the EU in March 2019 has prompted some Donald Trump actually doing? Leaving aside the millions of
politicians and commentators to suggest that a United Ireland hours and pages of commentary, what has he managed to
is now a serious solution to the big problem that is Northern achieve with the US economy and what can he claim credit for?
Ireland. Demographics are only going one way towards unity, What should we be looking out for over the next three years of
maybe quicker than we expect. Crucially according to the Good his Presidency and could he win again?
Friday Agreement, people in the Republic will have no say in
whether a United Ireland goes ahead. So who would pay the Host: Gerard Stembridge
nearly £10 billion per annum bill? Could the Republic afford Contributors: Harald Malmgren, Pippa Malmgren, Bill Black,
this and would the people – North and South – want it? Mihir Desai, Gillian Tett, Vikas Nath
8:00pm-9:15pm (75 mins)
Host: Andrew Maxwell
Watergate Theatre
Contributors: Liam Halligan, Steve Moore, David McWilliams,
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Robert Shrimsley, Dearbhail McDonald
7:00pm-8:15pm (75 mins)
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