A session at the conference: Inequality in the 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty|
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Date: Monday 11 May 2015
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Time: 11.45am-1pm
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Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Chair and introduction:
Diane Perrons is Professor of Economic Geography and Gender Studies and Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE. Her research focuses on globalisation, gender and inequality; paid work, care, and social reproduction and regional development and social change.
Speakers:
Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA . Her current research explores the relationship between inequality, growth, and development focussing on the effect of gender equality on macroeconomic outcomes and the gender and race effects of contractionary monetary policy.
Lisa McKenzie is a research fellow in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, working on issues of social inequality and class stratification through ethnographic research.
Naila Kabeer is Professor of Gender and Development at the LSE Gender Institute. She is a feminist economist whose research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection and citizenship and gender-related policy analysis.
Abstract:
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century highlights the magnitude of contemporary inequality, how it has come about, why it matters, and what might be done about it. Introducing a feminist perspective enhances his analysis by not only pointing to the gendered composition of contemporary inequality but by introducing an inter-disciplinary perspective capable of examining the multiple ways in which inequalities are naturalised, legitimated and experienced in everyday life. The fact that the different rewards associated with different forms of work are so heavily laden with gendered, not to mention racialized social constructions also indicates that Piketty’s persuasive argument for ex poste redistributive taxes needs to be supplemented with an analysis and a politics capable of contesting the ex-ante processes through which inequalities are reproduced.
This session contributes to this end by analysing how contemporary economic inequality in the period pre and post the financial crisis was experienced differently by different social groups and the how different forms of inequality intersect and multiple ways that inequality in with reference to particular communities in the global north and global south.
This event is free and open to all but will require a ticket. Bookings open on 20 April. For more information see LSE Sociology||.