Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In regard to the meeting at Davos, we have a situation where people pay $50,000 to attend. As Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett said, these are the elite, the powerful and the privileged. The book I gave the Taoiseach before Christmas, The Price of Inequalityby Joseph Stiglitz, addresses one of the core themes of the conference, namely, that distributive economics has been shown - again, by facts and analysis, not by opinions, wishful thinking and ideologies - to be more constructive and progressive and better at generating economic activity than the neoliberal model of the past.

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