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Economics Explained

Economics Explained

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On Economics Explained, we take a look at interesting countries, policies, and decisions from the point of view of an economist. The world is an interesting place and we hope to uncover some of this intrigue in our short, informative podcasts.
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Michael discusses financial independence in an Irish context. Join him as he shares stories of his own journey towards financial independence, interviews others on FIRE related topics and tries to work out the best path to early retirement in Ireland.
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Informed Decisions Independent Financial Planning & Money Podcast

Paddy Delaney (Parent, Educator, Qualified Planner & Executive Coach)

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Take control of your financial future by joining us on Ireland's Independent & award-winning Investment & Retirement Planning Podcast, with Paddy Delaney (QFA RPA APA). Join Paddy & guests as they cut through the noise, nonsense and smoke-n-mirrors of financial services in Ireland. We want you to avoid costly mistakes and to make informed financial decisions in your investments and retirement planning. Paddy Delaney QFA RPA APA
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The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams & John Davis

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The aim of this weekly podcast is to make economics easy, uncomplicated and accessible. With the world at a political, technological and financial tipping point, economics has never been so important to all of us and yet, it’s made inaccessible and complicated by so many. I’ve always thought what is complicated is rarely important and what is important is rarely complicated. That will be our motto. Every week we are going to tease out some big economic or political issue facing us, not just ...
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Zurich is one of Ireland’s leading insurance companies providing a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. The company employs over 1,000 people across its locations in Dublin and Wexford. https://www.zurich.ie/about-us/social-media/
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Hosted by Ulster Bank Chief Economist Richard Ramsey, Ulster Economix - The Podcast keeps you up-to-date on the economy in Northern Ireland. The podcast tells you what you need to know each month, but not always what you want to hear.
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We pick a busy trade in Ireland and discuss it in-depth with relevant commentators every week. Listen and subscribe to The Industry Review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'
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The Sound of Economics brings you insights, debates, and research-based discussions on economic policy in Europe and beyond. The podcast is produced by Bruegel, an independent and non-doctrinal think tank based in Brussels. It seeks to contribute to European and global economic policy-making through open, fact-based, and policy-relevant research, analysis, and debate.
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What will this year's Budget bring and how will businesses and taxpayers be affected? Hear from a panel of economists and experts on the Budget Briefing series that will give you the information you need to know. Presented by business journalist, Sorcha Corcoran and in association with EY Ireland. Produced on behalf of Mediahuis Ireland by LastCastMedia.com.
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At The Margin

Niall Farrell

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Discussions about GDP, housing and other issues seem to assume that we know quite a bit about the topic already. Most of us don't. This podcast will fill in those gaps. During each episode, an expert will guide us through a given topic, with the goal of providing enough information so we can piece together our own informed views. Many of the speakers are working at the cutting edge of their respective fields, guiding us through both the accumulated evidence and showing us where things are li ...
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The Dublin Law and Politics Review is a non-profit student-led society based at Dublin City University. The goal of this podcast is to raise awareness and encourage conversation on current legal and political issues, both in Ireland and abroad. Furthermore, this podcast aims to provide a platform for early-career researchers to share their work.
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Voices Of Boyle

Carlo Cretaro | Florence Cretaro

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Finally, after years of talking about bringing a podcast to Boyle, we’re live! This podcast is our way of documenting stories about Boyle and its people.So what motivated us to take this big leap into the unknown (it’s our first time recording audio and doing interviews!)? We were lucky enough to spend 7+ years travelling and, like the majority of people that live abroad, we came back to Boyle with a greater appreciation for our hometown, its people and its history.We love the idea of creati ...
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The Pig Edge is Teagasc's podcast for pig farmers. Presented by Amy Quinn, each episode covers the news, advice and information to keep pig farmers up to date. Visit the show page at: https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/pigs/the-pig-edge-podcast/
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The Sustainability Agenda is a weekly podcast exploring today’s biggest sustainability questions. Leading sustainability thinkers offer their views on the biggest sustainability challenges, share the latest thinking, identify what’s working --and what needs to change -- and think about the future of sustainability.
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Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference 2011

Tudor and Stuart Ireland in association with History Hub.ie

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This series features recordings of research papers from the Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference wich took place on September 2nd and 3rd of September 2011 in University College Dublin. The conference saw over fifty speakers from around Ireland and beyond come together to share their ideas in an interdisciplinary forum. Over one hundred registered delegates attended the conference over the course of the two day event. Funded by the UCD School of History and Archives, and UCD Graduate School o ...
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Listen to FREE podcast versions of Rebel News livestreams and premium shows, The Ezra Levant Show and The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid. Like what you hear? Consider becoming a RebelNews+ subscriber at http://RebelNewsPlus.com for access to video versions, premium shows, feature documentaries and exclusive content.
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The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change. The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. FLI has become one of the world's leading ...
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Breaking Britain is a podcast produced by the Europe's Borderlands Research Group at the European and International Studies Department in King's College London. Hosted by Russell Foster and Alex Clarkson, it will explore the pressures unravelling the unity of Britain and reopening the future of the island of Ireland in a European context. In each episode we will discuss the challenges reshaping a disunited kingdom as well as a wary republic with scholars and commentators who can provide expe ...
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The COVID Alarm Clock

Darragh Wynne & Ellen Hegarty

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This podcast asks if we can use our experience of COVID as a wake up call to take real action on climate change. Join hosts Darragh Wynne and Ellen Hegarty, based in Dublin, Ireland, as they chat about topics including science, politics, media, the economy and more, looking at what we have learned about these areas throughout the pandemic and how that can inform our climate response. Follow us on: instagram.com/covidalarmclock twitter.com/covidalarmclock facebook.com/covidalarmclock @covidal ...
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The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence seeks to advance a critical debate on the new political economy of Europe. We are based at Dublin's European Institute (DEI) at University College Dublin. The DEI is the oldest and largest university centre for research on European politics in the Republic of Ireland. In this podcast we interview scholars, journalists, policymakers, and activists. Our focus is on the Centre's three key research themes: economic governance, democratic legitimacy, and prote ...
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JFL (Dr John Francis Leader) explores the psychology of wellbeing: perception, presence and control. If you find these ideas valuable do Like, Subscribe and Share. You can contribute questions, topic suggestions and share your experience in the Comments or using #bodymindself on social media. Check out https://jfl.com for lots more content and https://youtube.com/JFLdotCOM for videos.
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Inspiring Research Podcast

James Eves & Michelle Minnikin

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A podcast to showcase some of the best social science research in the North East of England and Northern Ireland from institutions across the NINE Doctoral Training Partnership, including the Universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Teesside, Ulster, Sunderland, and Queen’s Belfast. A selection of social scientists present their ideas and findings on a broad range of topics that can be relevant to businesses in many ways. We hope these conversations will bring research to a new audien ...
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Five Degrees of Change is the new energy and environment podcast series from the Business Post. Host Daniel Murray will explore how we can all make the necessary changes to reduce our impact on the environment at this critical time. He’ll be asking some of the most influential experts in politics, business and academia to propose three big environmental policy changes they would make if they had the opportunity, and to let us in on two small personal changes they have made to contribute to a ...
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Clare businesses are hailing the economic godsend of an All-Ireland victory. It comes as the Banner faithful came out in force across the county this week to join the homecoming celebrations for Liam McCarthy’s first stay in eleven years. On Monday evening alone, over 35,000 attended the main homecoming event at the fair green in Ennis. Afterwards …
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This week, we delve into one of the most transformative shifts in economics and finance: the rise of e-banking, spotlighted by Revolut's meteoric growth. Revolut, a Lithuanian-born company now boasting 2.7 million Irish customers—nearly three-quarters of the adult population—has quickly transitioned from a simple travel card service to a major bank…
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The Rebel News podcasts features free audio-only versions of select RebelNews+ content and other Rebel News long-form videos, livestreams, and interviews. Monday to Friday enjoy the audio version of Ezra Levant's daily TV-style show, The Ezra Levant Show, where Ezra gives you his contrarian and conservative take on free speech, politics, and foreig…
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In this weeks podcast we have a interesting guest with us - Alan Purcell from Cloud Accounts in Dublin. Alan is unique as he is both a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor. We had a quite broad conversation and covered a lot of ground, which I hope that you find helpful. Key topics include: PAYE taxes as an employee and what you should co…
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Clare County Council is being urged to ensure those setting up illegal encampments are not bumped up the housing list in it's new traveller accommodation strategy.Under the draft plan, the local authority is aiming to provide for 97 new traveller families by the end of the decade.A Clare government TD is calling on the county council to adopt a ful…
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East Clare residents will be invited to have their say on an EU funded project that will aim to preserve pristine local water bodies.The Graney sub-catchment was one of six areas nationwide, chosen for the Waters of Life programme in 2022, which aims to identify solutions to combat the decline of Ireland's high-status rivers.Drop in public consulta…
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A Clare Historian fears the Palestinian people will face annihilation without real and meaningful intervention from the Irish Government.It follows a tree planting ceremony held in conjunction with the East Clare for Palestine group in Tuamgraney Memorial Park over the weekend in solidarity with the people of Gaza.Last night a further 30 innocent c…
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On Monday’s Morning Focus, Alan Morrissey was joined by Tom Stewart from Keane’s Garden Centre in Kilcolgan.This week, Tom gave listeners some advice on a selection of salads to plant for late summer, autumn and winter picking.If you have a question for Tom, contact the show on 0818 400 964 or send a text or Whatsapp to 086 1800 964.…
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Tributes are pouring in for acclaimed Clare author Edna O’Brien, who has died aged 93 after a long illness. The Tuamgraney native’s book ‘The Country Girls’ , the first in a trilogy of books, caused controversy in 1960 and was banned. She went on to write over 20 books over a career spanning six decades. President Michael D Higgins says she has bee…
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Entitled “You Only Live Once”, Manuel Di Lucia's book details the eventful life of the 83 year-old Kilkee fisherman, lifeguard, diver, restaurant operator, and founder member of the Kilkee Marine Rescue and Recovery Service. Manuel launched his book in June, with proceeds of the book being divided between the RNLI, Kilrush and West Clare Cancer Cen…
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Tidy Towns Adjudication is currently in progress across Ireland, with volunteers actively participating in clean-ups nationwide.Many young men have joined the Ennis Tidy Towns over the last few weeks from Palestine, Jordan, Algeria and Nigeria.For more on this, Alan Morrissey was joined by Councillor Mary Howard, and new volunteers, Anas Saleem Mah…
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The middle of this week will see the kick-off of the Kilrush Traditional Music & Set Dancing Festival. Running from the 31st July to 5th August, the week-long festival will include céilís, music, workshops, concerts, dance displays, and so much more. To fill us in on what we can expect from the Kilrush Traditional Music & Set Dancing Festival, Alan…
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In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. In Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945 (Cambridge UP, 2021), Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing…
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Today I talked to Ewa Bacon about her book Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz (Purdue UP, 2017). In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek--newly graduated from medical school in Krakow--was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Februar…
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After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engin…
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fascinating research on the history of mobility in Asia and how it looks different when we approach it as a history of work and labor. The pair traverse McDonald’s career from her current project, The Ricks…
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Collateral was made in 2004, ten years after Speed—and while both films have the same story of a good guy trying to stop a killer in real time, Collateral feels decades away from the innocence of Speed. Much of that has to do with the villain, who espouses a set of assumptions about the world that we se all around us on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Shark…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work (Princeton UP, 2021), “we tend to accept that when firms do well, the economy does well”, even when that's not true. The rising tide, in some cases, doe…
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Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book, Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). The conversation focuses on child and sign language brokering, the innovative methodology Dr. Napier employed in her study, and the impacts of researching sign language bro…
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In the 1950s, a schoolteacher named Carleen Hutchins attempted a revolution in how concert violins are made. In this episode, Craig Eley of the Field Noise podcast tells us how this amateur outsider used 18th century science to disrupt the all-male guild tradition of violin luthiers. Would the myth of the never-equaled Stradivarius violin prove to …
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The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of substances such as marijuana and magic mushrooms offends core tenets of liberalism, from the right to self-rule to protection of privacy to freedom of religion. It contributes to mass incarceration and…
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Works to revitalise the streetscape and infrastructure of a prominent North Clare town will soon be underway. It comes as part VIII planning permission has been secured for extensive public realm enhancements in Ennistymon following a special meeting of Clare County Council held on Friday. The project which will now go out to tender involves revisi…
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2016 was supposed to mark Brazil's rise as an economic superpower. The country saw rapid growth in industries, surpassing India and Italy, and nearing France and the UK in economic output. Improvements in healthcare, education, and political stability painted a promising picture. But by 2016, the dream was shattered. The Rio Olympics, intended to s…
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How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged. Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultura…
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Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But, as Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's…
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Listen to this interview of Istvan David, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada. We talk about his coauthored paper "Collaborative Model-Driven Software Engineering – A Systematic Survey of Practices and Needs in Industry" (JSS 2023). Istvan David : "When I…
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Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Dr. Kristie Patricia Flannery reveals that Spanish colonial officials and Catholic missionaries forged alliances with Indige…
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The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth across the country. These schools were modeled on Christian approaches to religious education and aimed to protect Jewish children from Protestant missionarie…
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Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discriminate against women. In Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016), 17 scholars approach women’s human rights globally, regionally and nationally, combining the pers…
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Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global history. The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Eg…
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Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search for social justice. Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation's third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of life--businesswomen, church leaders, laborers, and writers--who sought to grow their city in a radic…
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In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player and counter foreign criticism of its authoritarian practices. In Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order (University of Illinois Press, 20…
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The Gnostic Trilogy is the best-known and most important work by the ascetic philosopher and teacher Evagrius of Pontus. Among the writers of his age, Evagrius stands out for his short, perplexing, and absorbing aphorisms, which provide sharp insight into philosophy, Scripture, human nature, and the natural world. The first part of the trilogy, the…
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A Clare farming representative claims the future of agriculture in this county is in serious trouble.It follows a report in the Teagasc National Farm survey that incomes on dairy and tillage farms have fallen drastically from 2022 to 2023, with average incomes reducing 71% and 69% respectively.There are fears from within the sector that without gov…
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As usal Beyoind Belief takes a break during the month of August.In this last programme of the current season, each of the team have chosen one of their favourite packages which thay had included on Beyond Belief over the last months.We look forward to our return to the Clare FM airwaves on 2nd September 2024.We look forward to you joining us for Be…
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During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, subjection to a foreign curriculum, and denial of th…
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Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North. Using twelve novels, it explores the historical, p…
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Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought (Brandeis UP, 2022) proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, return, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of…
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From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture (U California Press, 2024) challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these forma…
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Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Hawaii Press, 2023) interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that …
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1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left (Akashic Books, 2024) explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive-compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school as he reaches the age of thirteen--just as Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club…
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For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of mascu…
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In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a global phenomenon. By the early twenty-first century, people in nearly every corner of the world have undergone the initiations that authorize them to channel a cosmic energy—known as Reiki—to heal body, m…
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F*ck The Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive history of the FTA, an antiwar variety show featuring Jane Fonda that played to tens of thousands of active-duty troops over nine months in 1971. From its conception, the civilian-led show was directed towards making visi…
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The Rebel News podcasts features free audio-only versions of select RebelNews+ content and other Rebel News long-form videos, livestreams, and interviews. Monday to Friday enjoy the audio version of Ezra Levant's daily TV-style show, The Ezra Levant Show, where Ezra gives you his contrarian and conservative take on free speech, politics, and foreig…
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What an amazing week it has been in the county with the VIP guest Liam McCarthy being brought north, south, east and west by the group of heroes who claimed him for the first time since 2013.What better way to celebrate that than listen back to how it was done, and revel once again in the outstanding display the lads produced in Croke Park last Sun…
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Poised to be the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris has kicked off her campaign after Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race. How does her nomination change the race, and what impact will she have on foreign policy? Then, as the Israel-Hamas war continues into its ninth month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits DC to discuss…
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