Dr Eoin Flaherty
Biography
Before arriving at Maynooth, I spent two years as Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast, and two years as Assistant Professor in Sociology at University College Dublin. I am interested in some basic questions of collective behavior: how are patterns of inequality formed and maintained, and how do they change over time? I study these processes over time and space, with a particular focus on income inequality during the late 20th/early 21st century, and instances of famine during the 19th century (mainly Ireland for now). I am also interested in how human societies have formed systems of cooperation and managed resources collectively, and whether such systems were more resilient to environmental stress.
Recent published work available here:
Flaherty, E., Tristan Sturm & Elizabeth Farries. 2022. 'The conspiracy of Covid-19 and 5G: Spatial analysis fallacies in the age of data democratization.' Social Science and Medicine 293: 1-10
Flaherty, E. 2021. 'Common-pool resource governance and uneven food security: Regional resilience during the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1852.' Journal of Agrarian Change 21(2): 285-312.
https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12396
Flaherty, E. and Seán Ó Riain. 2020. 'Labour’s declining share of national income in Ireland and Denmark: the national specificities of structural change.' Socio-Economic Review 18(4): 1039-1064.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy047
Flaherty, E. 2019. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-137-54978-5
Recent published work available here:
Flaherty, E., Tristan Sturm & Elizabeth Farries. 2022. 'The conspiracy of Covid-19 and 5G: Spatial analysis fallacies in the age of data democratization.' Social Science and Medicine 293: 1-10
Flaherty, E. 2021. 'Common-pool resource governance and uneven food security: Regional resilience during the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1852.' Journal of Agrarian Change 21(2): 285-312.
https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12396
Flaherty, E. and Seán Ó Riain. 2020. 'Labour’s declining share of national income in Ireland and Denmark: the national specificities of structural change.' Socio-Economic Review 18(4): 1039-1064.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy047
Flaherty, E. 2019. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-137-54978-5
Research Interests
My specific research interests include:
- Top income inequality, labour's share of national income, time series and pooled time series cross-section analysis, rentier incomes.
- Financialisation, social structures of accumulation, power resources.
- Famine, common-pool resource systems, primitive communism, nineteenth-century Ireland.
- Marxist social theory (with a special interest in ecology), and the history of Marxist thought
- Complexity theory, human ecology, environmental sociology.
Research Projects
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Flaherty, Eoin (2019) Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Slater, Eamonn and Flaherty, Eoin (2023) 'Marx on the Reciprocal Interconnections between the Soil and the Human Body: Ireland and Its Colonialised Metabolic Rifts'. Antipode, 55 (2):620-642. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2022 | Moran M.; Flaherty E. (2022) 'Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention'. Critical Sociology, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2022 | Flaherty Eoin., Sturm Tristan., and Farries, Elizabeth (2022) 'The conspiracy of Covid-19 and 5G: Spatial analysis fallacies in the age of data democratization'. Social Science and Medicine, 293 . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2022 | Duong K.; Flaherty E. (2022) 'Does growth reduce poverty? The mediating role of carbon emissions and income inequality'. Economic Change and Restructuring, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2021 | Flaherty, Eoin (2021) 'Common-pool resource governance and uneven food security: Regional resilience during the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1852'. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21 (2):285-312. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Flaherty Eoin and Ó Riain, Seán (2020) 'Labour's declining share of national income in Ireland and Denmark: The national specificities of structural change'. Socio-Economic Review, 18 (4):1039-1064. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Flaherty, Eoin (2019) 'Varieties of Regulation and Financialization: Comparative Pathways to Top Income Inequality in the OECD, 1975–2005'. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 21 (1):90-115. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2016 | Flaherty, Eoin (2016) 'Rundale and 19th Century Irish Settlement: System, Space, and Genealogy'. Irish Geography, 48 (2):3-38. [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.2014/igj.v48i2.623 [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Flaherty, Eoin (2015) 'Top incomes under finance-driven capitalism, 1990-2010: power resources and regulatory orders'. Socio-Economic Review, 13 (3):417-447. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwv011 [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Flaherty, Eoin (2015) 'A statistical and documentary primer on rundale in Ireland'. Ulster Folklife, 58 :22-32. [Full-Text] | |
| 2014 | Flaherty, Eoin (2014) 'Assessing the distribution of social-ecological resilience and risk: Ireland as a case study of the uneven impact of famine'. Ecological Complexity, 19 (9):35-45. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2014.04.002 [Full-Text] | |
| 2014 | Flaherty, Eoin (2014) 'Income inequality from 1960-2012: a brief time-series history of capital and labour'. Irish Journal of Sociology, 22 (1):88-101. [Link] https://doi.org/10.7227%2FIJS.22.1.6 [Full-Text] | |
| 2013 | Flaherty, Eoin (2013) 'Geographies of communality, colonialism, and capitalism: ecology and the world system'. Historical Geography, 41 :59-79. [Link] [Full-Text] | |
| 2009 | Slater, Eamonn., and Flaherty, Eoin (2009) ''Marx on primitive communism: The Irish rundale agrarian commune, its internal dynamics, and metabolic rift'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 12 (2):5-34. [Link] [Full-Text] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Flaherty, Eoin and McAuley, Martina (2021) 'Class and Inequality in Northern Ireland' In: Contemporary Ireland and Northern Ireland. Dublin : UCD Press. | |
| 2018 | Flaherty, Eoin (2018) 'Complex Inequalities in the Age of Financialisation: Piketty, Marx, and Class-Biased Power Resources' In: Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond. Leiden : Brill. | |
| 2015 | Flaherty, Eoin., and Ó Riain, Seán (2015) 'The variety of Polanyian double movements in Europe¿s capitalisms' In: The changing worlds and workplaces of capitalism. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Ó Riain, Seán., Behling, Felix., Ciccia, Rossella., and Flaherty, Eoin (2015) 'Changing workplaces, changing capitalisms' In: The changing worlds and workplaces of capitalism. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Ó Riain, Seán., Behling, Felix., Ciccia, Rossella., and Flaherty, Eoin (2015) 'Integrating Work and Political Economy' In: The changing worlds and workplaces of capitalism. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2010 | Bendon, Mary., and Flaherty, Eoin (2010) 'Landscapes of recession in contemporary Ireland' In: Ireland of the illusions: a sociological chronicle. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration. [Link] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Flaherty, Eoin (2018) 'Doing Time Series Analyses of Income Inequality–Pooled or Comparative?' The game of greed and 20+18 other maths problems from Ireland, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Flaherty, Eoin (2016) 'Northern Ireland's Economy Post-Brexit: Is North-South Reunification the Answer?' Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: Brexit Special (Online), . [Link] |
Media
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Flaherty, Eoin (2018) What will happen to Ireland's abortion rate after repeal?. London: MEDIA [Link] | |
| 2016 | Flaherty, Eoin (2016) Four simple steps the UK government follows to make you really, really rich. MEDIA [Link] | |
| 2016 | Flaherty, Eoin (2016) Was there ever a time when so few people controlled so much wealth?. MEDIA [Link] | |
| 2015 | Flaherty, Eoin (2015) Response to 'Fact check: Are those with the broadest shoulders bearing the greatest burden?'. MEDIA [Link] | |
| 2015 | Flaherty, Eoin (2015) Free from the confines of coalition, Osbourne goes on benefits rampage. MEDIA [Link] | |
| 2015 | Flaherty, Eoin (2015) Budget 2016: experts respond. MEDIA [Link] |
Working Paper
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | McAuley, Martina and Flaherty, Eoin (2020) “…til debt do us part…?” Unsecured Debt, Over-indebtedness, and Crisis in the Age of Financialisation. Maynooth University: WP | |
| 2020 | Flaherty, Eoin and McAuley, Martina (2020) Class and Inequality in Northern Ireland. Maynooth University: WP | |
| 2019 | Flaherty, Eoin (2019) Regional resilience during the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1852: the role of common tenancy in spatial inequalities of food security. Maynooth: WP [Link] |
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Flaherty, Eoin (2015) Brunsdon and Comber's 'An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping' (with notes on making the big switch). BREV [Link] | |
| 2014 | Flaherty, Eoin (2014) Derek Wall: The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, Contestation and Craft. BREV [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-014-9664-6 | |
| 2013 | Flaherty, Eoin (2013) Social Measurement Through Social Surveys, An Applied Approach. Ireland: BREV [DOI] |
Conference Contribution
Certain data included herein are derived from the © Web of Science (2023) of Clarivate. All rights reserved.
Teaching Interests
Human ecology and environmental sociology
Marxian social theory
Historical sociology
Famines and food security
Income inequality
Political economy
Quantitative research methods
Time series and panel models
Marxian social theory
Historical sociology
Famines and food security
Income inequality
Political economy
Quantitative research methods
Time series and panel models