Are Small Open Economies Still the Model?
Denmark and Ireland in Comparative Perspective
Iontas Building, May 18th 2017
New Deals in the New Economy Project
MUSSI and the Department of Sociology
Maynooth University
Conference Programme
9.30-11.30 Small Open Economies in European Development
Chair: Joe Larragy, Maynooth
The Return of the National: Implications for Ireland’s Multiple Interface-Periphery Development Model
Joe Ruane, UCC
Financial circuits and the political economy of social housing in Ireland, Denmark and Austria
Mick Byrne and Michelle Norris, UCD
Denmark and Ireland – Assessing a decade of labour market trends and institutional reforms
Bent Greve, Roskilde and Mary Murphy, Maynooth
11.45-1.15 Institutions and Capitalisms
Chair: Mary Murphy, Maynooth
The Paradox of Vulnerability: States, Nationalism and the Financial Crisis
John Campbell (co-author John A. Hall), Dartmouth
Good Governance Gone Bad: Lessons for Denmark and Ireland
Darius Ornston, Toronto (presented by Seán Ó Riain as Prof. ornston was unable to attend)
2.30-3.45 New Deals Research on Comparative Capitalisms
Politics, Work and Industrial Relations in Ireland and Denmark: Rethinking the Worlds of Capitalism
Seán Ó Riain, Felix Behling, John Paul Byrne, Maynooth
Session 3 – Part 1 Session 3 – Part 2
4-5 Discussion: Are Small Open Economies Still the Model?
Chair: David Begg, Pensions Authority
David Soskice, LSE
Niamh Hardiman, UCD
Session 4 – Part 1 Session 4 – Part 2
