David McWilliams
speaker
18,421 appearances
51 recordings
8 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard today
David McWilliams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They secretly want to say, man, he got up on stage, he was doing the fringe and he just died, man.
Ah terrible, right?
Okay.
So economists are in that in that world, particularly academic economists.
So but the
The capo di tuti kapi of all the economies at the moment is a guy called Daron Ade Moglu.
And he is a Turkish academic, he is a Nobel Prize winner, he's a Harvard professor.
He very much is the top dog.
I've read lots of his stuff.
It's all very readable, which is for me is always an asset test.
Would I be able to read it?
Yeah, you'd you'd you'd skim through it, John.
You'd skim through it, you flick through it.
But I mean they default always to mathematics to try and make everyone look good.
Right.
As I always say, economists deploy mathematics to make themselves not to elucidate, but to basically bully other people who can't do sums.
course.
But that's that's part of the job.
Anyway, the point is there was a pylon on this guy.
And it basically said he wasn't as good as everybody thinks he is, and his research is shoddy, and his numbers are not great.
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