What The World Wants To Know Is: Will David Keohane Be Covering The Return Of Kilkenomics?

Recession/Depression? Nuclear War? They pale in importance to Kilkenny's own Kilkenomics!

It's the world's only festival of comedy and economics.

After a three year lockdown-induced hiatus the festival returns with headliners:

Pippa Malmgren

N.N. Taleb

Yanis Varoufakis

Lorcan Roche Kelly

Rory Sutherland

And many, many more!

From the official website:

We are back for Kilkenomics 2022

November 3rd – 6th 2022.

Bringing people together in person, in cozy environments in Kilkenny City to listen to and exchange ideas and have the craic is what we do. If we can’t do it safely, we’ll wait until we can. See you all in November, 2022.

Kilkenomics, the world’s first economics and comedy festival, brings together some of the world’s leading economists, financial analysts and media commentators with some of our funniest, sharpest stand up comedians.

See our fantastic programme and lineup for this year below. Make sure to get your hands on tickets before they sell out!

 Over 50 sessions including America, WTF and Economics of Ulysses and Leopold Bloom [the 100th anniversary only happens once!}

Over 50 sessions!

With the passing of Red Bull's owner,Dietrich Mateschitz, what could be more appropriate than:

04 Nov 2022

20:30-21:30

The Watergate Theatre

Jennifer O’Connell

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rory Sutherland

Misbehaviour and Animal Spirits: The Economics of Human Nature

Why is Red Bull so popular – even though everyone hates the taste? Why do countdown boards on platforms take away the pain of train delays? And why do we prefer stripy toothpaste? Rory Sutherland and Nassim Taleb explore the intricacies of human nature. Economics and business rely on the assumption that we make logical decisions based on evidence. But we aren’t, and we don’t. The best ideas don’t make rational sense: they make you feel more than they make you think.

Kilkenomics 3 - 6 November Kilkenny, Irelsnd

Previous iterations:

2017
"Kilkenomics, the world’s only festival of economics and comedy"

"Once described as ‘Davos without the hookers’"

2018
As Stocks Crash In China I'm Thinking About Kilkenomics

Unlike some, we are not Kilkenny come latelys.