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NOVEMBER 2013 KILKENNY, IRELAND

EUROPE’S FIRST FESTIVAL OF ECONOMICS...

WITH AN ENTERTAINING TWIST

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Welcome to the fourth 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 crucial issues such as the prospects for the Irish economy in 2014, what happens after the Troika leaves, what’s happening with the global economy and whether Ireland is experiencing another property bubble. There’s more intriguing talks too on issues like the economics of sport, behavioural economics with one of the world’s leading experts, Dan Ariely; and also the economics of the Game of Thrones TV series. Our informal, entertaining formats invite our audiences to engage and enjoy. As we like to say: it’s serious, but it’s fun too!

We’re now six weary years into the global financial and economic crisis and there are tentative signs of recovery, putative green shoots and even modest growth in places. There is of course difference of opinion as to whether these are real or illusory and some warn that we could face a double dip recession and sluggish growth for a decade or more to come.

We’re moving into a new phase now, having taken stock and calmly and carefully examined the solutions. Jump into Kilkenomics now and engage with as many shows as possible, equip yourself with the information and insight we hope can help us all make smart choices for our futures, inform and entertain yourselves.

HERE’S A TASTE WHAT THE PRESS HAD TO SAY ABOUT KILKENOMICS: “Davos with jokes” THE AUSTRALIAN “One of the oddest festivals anywhere, comedy with a pint and a point” UK SUNDAY TIMES

“Having a laugh despite the gloom”.

“Comedians give permission to the audience to feel comfortable” BBC

“A little jewel where players manage to talk human without being patronising” “An utterly bizzare idea but the public love it” THE IRISH TIMES SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “Having a laugh despite the gloom” BBC WORLD SERVICE brochure design: redlemonade.ie

“Lenny Bruce meets John Maynard Keynes” BLOOMBERG “Wildly successful” THE GUARDIAN “Laugh, I nearly defaulted!”

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3 The Hole in the Wall 17 High St., Kilkenny Tel: +353 (0)87 8075650, Web: holeinthewall.ie

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Box Office: 14 John St., Kilkenny Tel: 056 776 3837 Box Office open from 12pm, Monday, October 28th.

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Festival tickets start at just €5 but if you plan on catching more than one show, the Festival Ticket Package offers great value for money. For €99 you get seven tickets to the festival shows of your choice, subject to availability, plus a pass to the Festival Club. As part of the deal, you’ll also be able to avail of a 10% discount at Stonehouse Books on Kieran Street.

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PETER ANTONIONI

BILL BLACK

LOUISE COOPER

is co-author of Economics For Dummies.

He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and Birkbeck College, London. He is currently lecturer in management at University College, London. His research interests are diverse and include the football transfer market, the process of enterprise in technology markets and the techniques and practice of the arcane field of long-range scenario planning.

is an American lawyer, academic, best selling author, and a former bank regulator. He is currently an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Bill assisted Icelandic and French leaders responding to their fiscal crises, and has testified to US Congress about the financial crisis, specifically on financial derivatives, executive compensation, regulatory failures and the role of control fraud in the bubble and crisis.

is a high profile financial and economic commentator appearing regularly on television and radio and in the national press. She started her career at Goldman Sachs, then became a business journalist with the BBC World Service Radio. Her regular media appearances had her dubbed the Downturn Diva by the Daily Mail. In 2013 Louise set up her own financial analysis consultancy and blogging business called CooperCity.

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DAN ARIELY

BILL BONNER

MAEVE DINEEN

is professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University, North Carolina and is the author of Predictably Irrational and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty. He is co-founder of BEWorks, a consulting firm that applies behavioural economics to business and policy challenges and writes a weekly column, Ask Ariely in the Wall Street Journal.

has, since founding Agora Inc. in 1979 along with Addison Wiggin, written two New York Times best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt. Since 1999, Bill has been a daily contributor to and driving force behind The Daily Reckoning. Dice Have No Memory: Big Bets & Bad Economics from Paris to the Pampas is the definitive compendium of Bill’s daily reckonings from more than a decade between 1999 and 2010.

has recently been appointed business editor of the Irish Independent. Prior to this, she was the newspaper’s farming and food editor and was responsible for its business coverage during the country’s financial crash. Maeve was a presenter on RTE’s Ear to the Ground. She holds a degree in animal science from UCD and a masters in communications from Queens University Belfast.

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CONTRIBUTORS

FINTAN DRURY

KEVIN GILDEA

CONSTANTIN GURDGIEV

has been involved in sports management for many years. He established Platinum One in 1990 and is a licensed football agent with more than 20 years experience in negotiating contracts for soccer players in the UK which led him into rugby when the game turned professional in 1995. Fintan has guided the careers of players like Denis Hickie and Shane Horgan right through to their retirement.

is an award winning writer, comedian, and actor. A regular reporter/critic on RTE’s arts show The Works, Gildea’s comedic style has been described as ‘highly original and explosively funny’

by The Sunday Times, and ‘quirky’, ‘innovative,’ ‘creative’, and ‘pioneering’ by the Guardian. His own short film No! No! No! was shortlisted for an IFTA. He even made an appearance in Father Ted back in the day.

lectures in finance at Trinity College, Dublin and UCD and is a founding partner with IBRU Venture Capital Holdings Ltd. - a start-up VC and incubation investment firm. In the past he served as head of research and a founding partner with St Columbanus AG, head of macroeconomics with the Institute for Business Value, IBM and director of research with NCB Stockbrokers.

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CIARÁN FITZGERALD

MEGAN GREENE

DAVID HALL

is an independent economist working in the food and agri sector. He was a director of IBEC from 2001 to 2005.

He was director of the food and drink sector at IBEC/CII from 1993 to 2001, having worked in the agri-food sector since 1981. Ciarán has also served on a number of EU advisory committees, the Irish Government food expert groups, the agri food 2015 group and the Government’s anti inflation group between 2002 and 2005.

is the chief economist at Maverick Intelligence, with a particular focus on Europe. She is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a columnist with Bloomberg and a senior research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. The opinions expressed here are her own and do not reflect those of any employers. Megan offers a strictly independent voice without a political or investment agenda.

was one of the co-founders of New Beginnings in 2010. In July 2012, David and other concerned citizens established the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (IMHO) to help consumers tackle the increasing burden of mortgage personal debt. In addition to IMHO, David owns and runs Lifeline Ambulance Service and is a state registered paramedic. David founded the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 1992 and was its voluntary CEO for 10 years.

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BOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 14 John St., Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM

DENIS HICKIE

STEPHEN KINSELLA

BRIAN LUCEY

retired from Leinster and international duty in 2007 as one of Irish rugby’s highest-ever try scorers with 62 caps and 29 tries to his name as well playing for the British and Irish Lions in 2005. He is a popular commentator and analyst and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 5 sport programming . Denis currently works as new business development and relationship manager for Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd.

is a lecturer in economics at the University of Limerick. He is the author of Ireland in 2050: How Will We Be Living?, Understanding Ireland’s Economic Crisis: Prospects for Recovery, Quick Win Economics, and Computable Economics.

Stephen’s research spans the area of computable economics, macroeconomics, and Irish public policy. He is a research fellow at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin.

is professor of finance in the School of Business at Trinity College, Dublin. He holds a first class degree in economics from TCD and has worked as a statistician in the Department of Health and as an economist with the Central Bank prior to joining TCD. He has studied at graduate level in Canada, Ireland, and Scotland and holds a PhD from University of Stirling.

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MAX KEISER

SIMON KUPER

CORMAC LUCEY

is an American broadcaster and filmmaker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial programme broadcast on Russia Today.

He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. Max invented virtual specialist technology, a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Prior to inventing this technology, he worked on Wall Street where he began working after graduating from NYU.

has been working for the Financial Times since 1994. He is the author of several books including Football Against the Enemy (winner of the William Hill prize for Sports Book of the Year 1994), Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War and – as co-author with Stefan Szymanski Soccernomics. In 2008 Simon won the Manuel Vazquez Montalban prize for sportswriting.

is a chartered accountant who has worked in various industrial and corporate finance jobs in both Ireland and Germany. He served as a special adviser to Michael McDowell during the 2002 to 2007 Government. He lectures in Finance at UCD, the IMI and Chartered Accountants Ireland. Cormac is also a frequent commentator on public affairs and is a regular columnist with the Irish Daily Mail.

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CONTRIBUTORS

RONAN LYONS

DAVID MCWILLIAMS

VIKAS NATH

is assistant professor of economics at Trinity College, Dublin, where his areas of research include urban economics, housing markets and global economic history. Prior to Trinity, he studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where his doctoral thesis covered the economics of Ireland’s recent property market bubble and crash.

is co-founder of Kilkenomics and one of Ireland’s leading economic commentators.

He was one of the very few to accurately predict that the boom was a bubble and that it would all end in a monumental crash with bank failures, negative equity, rising unemployment and emigration. He is an economist, broadcaster, bestselling author and writes two weekly economics columns in the Sunday Business Post and the Irish Independent. His most recent book is The Good Room.

was until recently chief executive officer of Exotix, an investment bank specialising in frontier markets, which he joined in 2009 from North of South Capital, a hedge fund he co-founded in 2004. In the 1990s, he was a global emerging markets strategist at UBS and Credit-Suisse and ranked among the top-three emerging market strategists by most major surveys. Vikas holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Delhi University in India and an MBA from the Wharton School.

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DEIRDRE MCCLOSKEY

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN

teaches economics, history, English and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A former associate of Milton Friedman, she has written sixteen books and around 400 scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistics to transgender advocacy (she transitioned from male to female in 1995) and the ethics of the bourgeois virtues. Her latest book is Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World.

is a sportswriter with the Irish Examiner.

Before that he was a civil servant in the Oireachtas and before that a teacher in California. He has written for the Evening Echo, the Washington Post, Observer Sport Monthly and other publications; he has also written comedy for RTE radio and television and Today FM. He co-wrote Candidate: Diary of an Election Candidate with Jerry Buttimer and last year, Blood Brothers: The Inside Story of the Cork Hurlers 1996-2008 and GAAnomics.

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COLM O’REGAN is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, columnist and broadcaster. He writes a weekly column for The Cork News and has written for The Irish Times and BBC Online Magazine. He is a regular contributor on Irish radio and on the BBC World Service. His stand-up has also featured on RTE’s Late Late Show and on Comedy Central. His first book Isn’t It Well For Ye? The Book of Irish Mammies was a huge publishing success and his Twitter account @irishmammies has 110,000 followers.

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07TH NOVEMBER NEW BUBBLES, NEW BABIES, NEW GROWTH, NEW HOPE: THE IRISH ECONOMY 2014

Cleere’s Theatre Bar

8pm €15/€12 (90 mins)

THE PAT KENNY SHOW:

LIVE OUTSIDE BROADCAST BY NEWSTALK

The Set Theatre Friday, 10am (150 minutes) FREE

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08TH NOVEMBER SHOW ME THE MONEY:

The Hole in the Wall

8pm €10/€7 (75 mins)

ECONOMICS OF THE WIRE

Cleere’s Theatre Bar

8pm €10/€7 (60 mins)

KILKENOMICS SAS YOUNG ECONOMIST OF THE YEAR AWARD

The Set Theatre

7pm €15/€12 (120 mins, including post show discussion)

09TH NOVEMBER

Cleere’s Theatre Bar

BOOM OR BUBBLE: THE FUTURE OF IRISH PROPERTY 12pm €10/€7 (75 mins)

The Set Theatre

APOCALYPSE WEST?

12.30pm €10/€7 (75 mins)

KICKING ARREARS: SOLVING IRELAND’S PERSONAL DEBT CRISIS

BABYNOMICS: THE ECONOMICS OF IRELAND’S BABY BOOM 4pm €12/€10 (75 mins)

6pm €15/€12 (75 mins)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MINUTES

THE HANGOVER: AFTER THE TROIKA WHAT NEXT?

PULLING IT OUT OF OUR ARSE

2pm €10/€7 (75 mins)

2pm €10/€7 (80 mins)

HOW GREEN IS OUR VALLEY?

The Hole in the Wall

2pm €10/€7 (75 mins)

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9.30pm €15/€12 (90 mins)

FISHAMBLE PRESENTS GUARANTEED!: FOLLOWED BY PANEL DISCUSSION

2pm FREE (90 mins)

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JARGON BUSTING: THE ECONOMIC BUZZWORD GAME SHOW

4pm €15/€12 (75 mins)

THE ECONOMIC AGONY AUNT: LIVE

4pm €12/€10 (60 mins)

IS BIG BUSINESS KILLING SPORT?

6pm €15/€12 (75 mins)

FISH ROT FROM THE HEAD

6pm €15/€12 (60 mins)

10TH NOVEMBER THE HUMAN WRECKAGE OF RECESSION

Cleere’s Theatre Bar

4pm €10/€7 (60 mins)

ANIMAL SPIRITS: BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS

The Set Theatre

2.30pm €10/€7 (75 mins)

The Hole in the Wall

The Pembroke Hotel

OPTIMISTIC ECONOMICS BRUNCH 11.30am (75 mins) €15 (including brunch) €10 (without)

TEN MORE IDEAS TO HELP IRELAND RECOVER AND GROW 6pm €15/€10 (75 mins)

GOOD CAP/ BAD CAP

DOUBLE DUTCH/ DOUBLE IRISH

8pm €15/€12 (75 mins)

10pm €15/€12 (75 mins)

THE RAYMOND CROTTY LECTURE: DAN ARIELY

THE ECONOMICS OF THE GAME OF THRONES

8pm €20/€15 (75 mins)

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

8pm €15/€12 (75 mins)

10pm €15/€12 (60 mins)

BOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 14 John St., Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM

FINTAN O’TOOLE

SINEAD RYAN

GERARD STEMBRIDGE

is one of Ireland’s leading political and cultural commentators. His work has appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has been a drama critic of In Dublin magazine, The Sunday Tribune, the New York Daily News, and The Irish Times and literary adviser to the Abbey Theatre. A columnist with The Irish Times since 1988 Fintan is now the paper’s deputy editor.

is a journalist specialising in consumer and personal finance issues. She is consumer columnist for The Herald and property finance columnist for the Irish Independent. She also frequently comments on radio and television.

Sinead spent 15 years in the financial services industry and is a qualified financial adviser. Her book Cents & Sensibility was published in 2010 and teaches young adults how to budget.

is an author, playwright, screenwriter, director, broadcaster and co-creator of, among many other things, the legendary Scrap Saturday satirical radio series.

His most recent book, a satirical novel called The Effect of Her was published this summer.

DONAL RYAN

KARL SPAIN

Tipperary born Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart is a first novel that has not only stunned critics and launched the new Doubleday Ireland imprint in a unique collaboration with The Lilliput Press, but won Sunday Independent Best Irish Newcomer of the Year at the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2012. The book was also longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.

is probably best known in Ireland for his TV series, Karl Spain Wants A Woman, which was a huge success in that he not only got huge ratings but he also found himself a woman! He’s also performed stand up on television all over the world – the U.S, the Middle East, Australia, and the UK. He regularly does corporate gigs and spends all his money on sweets and comics. He has performed at every Cat Laughs Festival since 2002.

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ELEANOR TIERNAN has performed at the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, the Galway Comedy Festival, in Best of Irish at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at the Vodafone Comedy Festival. Within just a year of starting stand-up Eleanor was asked to perform in Dublin’s Vicar St for the RTE production The Liffey Laughs, and BBC’s One Night Stand. She is one of the star’s of RTÉ’s critically-acclaimed satire series: Irish Pictorial Weekly, with memorable performances as the TV court reporter.

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CONTRIBUTORS

RON WEISBERG

DERMOT WHELAN

KARL WHELAN

is chief executive officer and acting director at IBI Investment House Ltd since May 6, 2008. Previously, he served as comanager for the International Department of IBI Exchanges and Investments Ltd. and as a trader. Ron holds a bachelors degree in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA degree from the Tel-Aviv University.

is best known for his regular appearances on RTE’s hit show Republic of Telly which he presented for several years and has performed at the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Other TV appearances include The Liffey Laughs for RTE television and One Night Stand for BBC TV. He also co-hosts the weekday afternoon Dermot and Dave’s show on the hugely successful Dublin radio station 98FM.

has been a professor of economics at UCD since 2007. Previously, he worked for 11 years in central banks: first at the Federal Reserve Board and then at the Central Bank of Ireland. He has a PhD in economics from MIT and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a member of the monetary experts panel, which advises the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

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EVENTS

NEW BUBBLES, NEW BABIES, NEW GROWTH, NEW HOPE: THE IRISH ECONOMY IN 2014 THURSDAY 07TH NOVEMBER

The first show of Kilkenomics 2013 is your essential preview to what lies ahead in the weekend’s sessions and what lies ahead for the Irish and global economies. Assembled for an intimate, interactive and lively conversation are some of the top stars of the festival lineup. Do not miss this! Host: Colm O’Regan.

Contributors: Constantin Gurdgiev, David McWilliams, Peter Antonioni, Dan Ariely, Bill Black.

8pm-9.30 (Duration: 90 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

KILKENOMICS SAS YOUNG ECONOMIST OF THE YEAR AWARD FRIDAY 08TH NOVEMBER

If we’ve learned anything from the recent financial and economic disasters, it’s that future generations must be better equipped to solve future crises. To this end, Kilkenomics and SAS are proud to present the inaugural Young Economist of the Year Awards at a finalists’ event which will feature the best entries received from more than 40 schools nationwide. Hosted by David McWilliams, the awards will also feature talks by Dan Ariely and Bill Black.

2pm-3.30 (Duration: 90 mins) The Set Theatre FREE

BOOKING INFORMATION: Box Office: 14 John St., Kilkenny. Tel: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM

FISHAMBLE: THE NEW PLAY COMPANY PRESENTS GUARANTEED!

JARGON BUSTING:

Written by journalist and documentary-maker, Colin Murphy, and directed by Conall Morrison, Guaranteed! is based on official documents and off-the-record interviews. The play reconstructs Ireland’s banking boom and bust - as it was seen from inside the corridors of power - up to the night of the bank guarantee in September 2008. A cast of five play a myriad of ministers, bankers and bureaucrats as they wrestle with the unfolding crisis. Contributors: Kevin Gildea, Colin Murphy, Bill Black, Dan Ariely.

A Kilkenomics favourite returns. Think you know your cyclical adjustment from your quantitative easing, your tapering from your ZIRP, your Austrians from your Australians, well pit your expertise against the pointy heads. Host: Dermot Whelan.

Contributors: Karl Spain, Colm O’Regan, Megan Greene, Bill Black, David McWilliams.

FRIDAY 08TH NOVEMBER

7pm-9.00 (Duration: 120 mins, incl. post show discussion) The Set Theatre €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

THE ECONOMIC BUZZWORD GAME SHOW FRIDAY 02ND NOVEMBER

9.30pm-11.00 (Duration: 90 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

BOOM OR BUBBLE:

THE FUTURE OF IRISH PROPERTY

SHOW ME THE MONEY:

HOW DO WE MAKE MONEY WORK FOR US AND WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES? FRIDAY 08TH NOVEMBER

Who owns money? Where is it made? Where does it go in a crash and where does it come from in a boom? What is it worth and why does it behave the way it does? What explains our relationship with money? What are the alternatives to money?

Can innovations like bitcoin and microcredit eventually bypass banks altogether? Host: David McWilliams. Contributors: Deirdre McCloskey, Max Keiser, Brian Lucey, Stephen Kinsella.

8pm-9.15 (Duration: 75 mins) The Hole in the Wall €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

ECONOMICS OF THE WIRE FRIDAY 08TH NOVEMBER

A sell out hit in 2012, Peter Antonioni returns with his witty and insightful look at one of television’s greatest ever drama series to see what it can teach us about economics. “You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna take you.” – Detective Lester Freamon. Host: Peter Antonioni.

8pm-9.00 (Duration: 60 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

Just five years after one of the world’s biggest property bubbles and busts, features are beginning to appear in the Irish press talking about a recovery in property process and even, God forbid, a boom in certain areas of Dublin. Is this just more froth or is this a sustainable recovery ? Our panel cuts through the property porn and estate agents spin to get to the truth of the matter. Host: Colm O’Regan. Contributor: Bill Black, Stephen Kinsella, Constantin Gurdgiev, Ronan Lyons.

12pm-1:15 (Duration:75 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

APOCALYPSE WEST?

THE ECONOMIC DECLINE OF THE US AND THE WESTERN WORLD SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

What’s happening with the US economy and why is the Federal Reserve risking massive inflation? What’s happened to the prospects of the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, Indian and China for lifting the global economy and driving it on and away from recession? Has the western world finally been usurped by the new economies in the east and the south and what lies ahead? Host: David McWilliams. Contributors: Bill Bonner, Ron Weisberg, Deirdre M McCloskey, Simon Kuper.

12.30pm-1.45 (Duration: 75 mins) The Set Theatre €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

EVENTS

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MINUTES: A WHISTLESTOP

BABYNOMICS:

SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

With the Pope’s Children up to their necks in debt and their younger brothers and sisters gone to foreign shores, can the Pope’s Children’s Children rescue Ireland? How will we fund our pensions as we live longer and longer? What are the expectations of the generation that has been born into recession and how will their economic behaviour affect Ireland’s economy into the future? Host: Kevin Gildea. Contributors: Sinead Ryan, David McWilliams, Cormac Lucey, Stephen Kinsella.

ECONOMIC TOUR OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

What’s likely to happen in the US as the White House continues to wrestle with Congress over the debt ceiling? What has happened to the BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China that they no longer seem the saviours of the western economies? Why is the Eurozone now bizarrely seen as an oasis of calm? Is the UK now in recovery and will it rescue the Irish economy? Host: Paul Tylak. Contributor: Peter Antonioni, Vikas Nath, Ron Weisberg, Megan Greene, Liam Halligan.

2pm-3.20 (Duration: 80 mins) The Set Theatre €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

KICKING ARREARS:

SOLVING IRELAND’S PERSONAL DEBT CRISIS SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

Our experts reflect on Ireland’s crippling mortgage and unsecured personal debt and offer some practical solutions for what people can do for themselves and what the Government needs to do to help them. Host: Olivia O’Leary. Contributors: Karl Whelan, David Hall, Ronan Lyons, Sinead Ryan.

2pm-3.15 (Duration: 75 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

HOW GREEN IS OUR VALLEY?

IRELAND’S INCREDIBLE AGRIFOOD ECONOMY SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

One of Ireland’s most important indigenous industries, the agrifood sector directly employs more than 50,000 people in companies - such as the Kilkenny-headquartered Glanbia - and is the main outlet for the produce of 128,000 family farms. The world’s population is growing and these billions need to be fed, who will feed them? Discover whether farming is the new tech and what the issues are in terms of regulation, traceability and sustainability. Host: Naoise Nunn. Contributors: Ciarán Fitzgerald, Maeve Dineen.

2pm-3.15 (Duration: 75 mins) The Hole in the Wall €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

THE ECONOMICS OF IRELAND’S BABY BOOM SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

4pm-5.15 (Duration: 75 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €12/€10 (Regular/Concession)

THE HANGOVER:

AFTER THE TROIKA - WHAT NEXT? SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

As the Irish Government looks towards the exit of the EU/ IMF/ ECB loan package within the next few weeks, our panel looks at the effects of the bailout conditions, the prospects for Ireland borrowing again on the money markets and asks whether we’re actually better off in some kind programme than vulnerable to the vagaries of politicians and the markets. Host: Dermot Whelan. Contributors: Fintan O’Toole, Karl Whelan, Bill Black, Constantin Gurdgiev, Colm McCarthy.

4pm-5.15 (Duration: 75 mins) The Set Theatre €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

THE ECONOMIC AGONY AUNT: LIVE - DAN ARIELY WITH PAUL TYLAK SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

Economists turned agony aunt, Dan Ariely shares the woes of the readers of the Wall Street Journal as he deals with everyday financial and economic conundrums, dilemmas and woes and tries to offer constructive solutions. This is a must for those who can’t understand why some mates don’t pay rounds, why many Americans chose to be fat and why gay men in bathhouses have unsafe sex. Host: Paul Tylak. Contributors: Dan Ariely.

4pm-5.00 (Duration: 60 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €12/€10 (Regular/Concession)

BOOKING INFORMATION: TEL: 056 776 3837 WWW.KILKENOMICS.COM

PULLING IT OUT OF OUR ARSE - JOBS, JOBS, JOBS - THE ONLY TRUE ECONOMICS, STATS, PREDICTIONS AND LIES

MEASURE OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY?

SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

Is economics truly a science or does it often rely on figures that come from the same place the Anglo boys found their rigorous estimates for how much the bailout would cost?

Our panel has a cold, hard look at the numbers used by economists, governments and banks, and how they’re used to hoodwink the public. Colm O’Regan. Contributors: Karl Whelan, Max Keiser, Deirdre McCloskey, Liam Halligan.

Politicians and governments are forever making brave claims about creating jobs in response to economic crises but do they really have any control over employment? And when we are told we’re turning a corner, exiting recession and that economic growth is returning, should we be very sceptical until we see a real fall in the real unemployment rate? Host: Naoise Nunn. Contributors: Vikas Nath, Brian Lucey, Louise Cooper, Megan Greene.

6pm-7.15 (Duration: 75 mins) The Set Theatre €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

8pm-9.15 (Duration: 75 mins) The Hole in the Wall €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

IS BIG BUSINESS KILLING SPORT? GOOD CAP/ BAD CAP THE ECONOMICS OF “MONEYBALL” SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

Award-winning Financial Times columnist, Simon Kuper; rugby legend, Denis Hickie; and guests look beyond the cliché and examine the big business, the power plays and the numbers behind sport and ask whether it’s ruining our beautiful games. Find out why all megatransfers are a waste of money, why England always loses and why the GAA loves a replay. Host: Karl Spain. Contributors: Simon Kuper, Denis Hickie, Fintan Drury, Michael Moynihan.

6pm-7.15 (Duration: 75 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

FISH ROT FROM THE HEAD:

CAN CAPITALISM BE KEPT ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW? SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

If capitalism really is, like democracy, the worst system ever tried other than all the others, how can we make it more responsive to human needs? How can the worst excesses of bankers, CEOs and inept officials and politicians be curbed so that we find a form of capitalism that plays by its own rules and benefits the 99% rather than the 1%? Host: Kevin Gildea.

Contributors: Fintan O’Toole, Max Keiser, Deirdre McCloskey, Bill Bonner, Constantin Gurdgiev.

8.00pm-9.15 (Duration: 75 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

HOW BANK CEOS’ FRAUD WRECKED THE WORLD ECONOMY, HOW WE STOP THEM AND HOW WE PROSECUTE THEM.

THE RAYMOND CROTTY LECTURE:

No nonsense bank regulator and scourge of bankers across the United States, Bill Black returns to Kilkenomics with a modest proposal. He’s going to tell us how bank CEOs wrecked the global economy but, better than that, he’s going to tell us how we stop letting them do it again and how we prosecute them for what they’ve done. Host: Dermot Whelan. Contributors: Bill Black.

Dan Ariely, widely tipped as a future Nobel prize-winner, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on behavioural economics. His three books have all been New York Times bestsellers and more than five million viewers watched his recent TED talk. In this, the third annual Raymond Crotty lecture, Dan Ariely addresses “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty” Host: David McWilliams.

SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

6pm-7.00 (Duration: 60 mins) The Hole in the Wall €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

DAN ARIELY

SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

8.00pm-9.15 (Duration: 75 mins) The Set Theatre €20/€15 (Regular/Concession)

EVENTS

DOUBLE DUTCH/ DOUBLE IRISH ANIMAL SPIRITS: BEHAVIOURAL ARE TAX AVOIDANCE SCHEMES A NECESSARY EVIL?

ECONOMICS - FROM GROCERY SHOPPING TO ORGAN DONATION

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From Apple to Google, Denis O’Brien to U2, big businesses and concerns make use of legal loopholes and policy incentives in the tax code of this and other countries. What drives the policy that creates these schemes, do they really benefit the economies as intended and what is the morality of governments foregoing billions in uncollected taxes while the ordinary punter is squeezed again? Host: Colm O’Regan. Contributors: Louise Cooper, Vikas Nath, Bill Bonner, Cormac Lucey.

What drives us to make the simple economic decisions in our lives like which brands to buy in the supermarket, why to back a nag of a horse or whether to donate our organs on our death?

Dan Ariely, author of The Upside of Irrationality and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty is joined by Professor Deirdre McCloskey and David McWilliams to impart a few home truths about the good and bad angels of our nature. Host: Gerard Stembridge.

Contributors: Dan Ariely, Deirdre McCloskey, David McWilliams.

10pm-11.15 (Duration: 75 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)

THE ECONOMICS OF THE GAME OF THRONES SATURDAY 09TH NOVEMBER

Ever wonder why Westeros has had no industrial revolution?

Convinced Europe should be paying a whole lot more attention to the War for the Iron Throne? Then this is the show for you. Fellow of University College London, Peter Antonioni investigates the principles of Renaissance banking ,the game theory of knightly combat; and why fuedalism is a ‘steady state’ and hard to break out of but easy to lapse back into. Host: Karl Spain. Contributors: Peter Antonioni.

10pm-11.15 (Duration: 75 mins) The Set Theatre €15/€10 (Regular/Concession)

2.30pm-3.45 (Duration: 75 mins) The Set Theatre €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

THE HUMAN WRECKAGE OF RECESSION: DONAL RYAN IN

CONVERSATION WITH COLM O’REGAN SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER

Donal Ryan’s Man Booker-nominated novel The Spinning Heart was rejected 47 times before being championed by a small Irish publisher. The Tipperary-man who still holds down a job in the Department of Jobs talks to Colm O’Regan about his story of the human cost of economic devastation in small town Ireland.

4pm-5.15 (Duration: 75 mins) Cleere’s Theatre Bar €10/€7 (Regular/Concession)

TEN MORE IDEAS TO HELP OPTIMISTIC ECONOMICS BRUNCH IRELAND RECOVER AND GROW SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER TH

Forget the doom and gloom, shake off the cobwebs of Saturday night and enjoy some good food and great company as some of our more optimistic economists and commentators gather to sieve through the Sunday newspapers and divine some positive stories and reasons to be cheerful. Host: Eleanor Tiernan, Gerard Stembridge.

Contributors: Vikas Nath, Brian Lucey, Bill Black, Louise Cooper.

11.30pm-12.45 (Duration: 75 mins) Kilkenny Pembroke Hotel €15 (including brunch) / €10 (without)

SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER

The best and brightest of our contributors convene at the end of what has hopefully been an inspiring and contructive weekend to come up with some real, concrete practical solutions as to how Ireland can shake itself out of its fug, look to the future and take a brave confident step forward. Contributors: David McWilliams, Dan Ariely, Vikas Nath, Megan Greene, Gerard Stembridge and special guests.

6pm-7.15 (Duration: 75 mins) The Set Theatre €15/€12 (Regular/Concession)