Austerity: Economic, Political, and Social Perspectives
Austerity is not simply an economic phenomenon—societies experience it in different ways, socially, politically, and geographically. The aim of this event is to bring leading thinkers to probe the complex effects of austerity on the European economies forced to experience it by the global economic crisis.
The event will be live-streamed through the INET and YSI network, shown at the Festival of Economics at the University of Trento, as well as various blogs and community sites like Irisheconomy.ie, and we encourage submissions to the panel, which can come in the form ofemail questions, tweets, and via facebook.
Austerity: Economic, Political, and Social Perspectives
Friday, May 30 Kemmy Business School, UL KBG-16 (map)
Livestream from YSI event in the Univeristy of Limerick, All times are CET
10.00 -10.30 Opening by Dean of the Kemmy Business School, Dr. Philip O’Regan
10.30-12.00 Panel 1: Beyond the theory: Austerity as an economic, and political, reality
Mary Regan, Political Editor of the Irish Examiner, Chair
Mark Blyth, Brown University
Johnathan Hopkin, London School of Economics
Niamh Hardiman, University College, Dublin
John McHale, NUI, Galway & Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
12.00-12.30 Break
12.30-2.00 Panel 2: The wider consequences of austerity on society
Stephen Kinsella, University of Limerick, Chair
Niamh Hourigan, University Collge, Cork
Carmel Hannon, University of Limerick
Seamus Coffey, University College, Cork
Julien Mercille, University College, Dublin