Cap the Gap
Summary of Day 1 - March14th 2015
Input from Mary P. Murphy
•What
is political economy?
•Polanyi
– reciprocity, production, redistribution (Polanyi 2001)
•Feminist
Economics (Nelson) social reproduction
and production
•Defining
work - total social organisation of labour Taylor (2004)
•How
some political economies generate more equality than others
•Varieties
of Capitalism (Hall and Soskice)
•Welfare
Regimes (A r c a n j o 2011)
•European
Models (Sapir 2005 )
•Measuring
Income Inequality (NAT, COF research, income pyramid )
•Global
Inequality
(Oxfam 2015)
•Divided
we Stand An Overview of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD Countries (OECD
2014)
•Main
Findings Irish inequality (TASC report 2015)
•CSO
wealth report 2015 and SILC 2013 (CSO 2015)