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)