Addicted to Money David McWilliams surveys the wreckage of the global economy and points to the worrying, but potentially transformative challenges ahead.

David travels the world, from Europe to America to China, Australia to Latin America surveying the wreckage that has been caused by the great meltdown. He discovers that this was a crisis that was avoidable, yet ironically necessary if we are to deal with the real crisis that lies just over the horizon: creating an economy that can sustain our society for the long term.

Out November 2009

How big is your piece of the pie? After ten years of a boom and on the eve of a downturn, Irish society has been turned on its head by a Generation War. The clear winners have been the middle-aged Jagger Generation. They have been enormously enriched by the property boom, creating a new class of Accidental Millionaires. The younger generation "the cash-strapped Jugglers" will be badly exposed as the credit wave recedes.

View all 3 complete episodes of The Generation Game here, or to gain a complete insight, check out the book.

The Popes Children The best-selling look at the Celtic Tiger David McWilliams' survey of Ireland today is a celebration of success. He takes us to Deckland, that suburban state of mind where you’ll find the Kells Angels, those out-of-town commuters who are the cutting edge of the new prosperity. He introduces the HiCos - Hiberno-Cosmopolitans - the elite whose distance from Deckland is measured in their cool sophistication, their ability to feel at home equally on the Boulevard Saint-Michel and on Hill 16. The Pope's Children is an antidote to the endless pessimism of the Commentariat, official Ireland’s gloomy opinion mongers, forever seeing a glass half empty that is in fact three-quarters full. There is a vast surge of ambition, new money, optimism and hope out there. That’s the real story: The Pope's Children tells it - and tells it with style.