1st Edition

Beyond Free Market Social Inclusion and Globalization

Edited By Fayyaz Baqir, Sanni Yaya Copyright 2021
246 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the causes and consequences of market failure in bridging societal differences to create a shared economy. It questions the current world order and evaluates socio-economic gains in reference to the social origins of the economic agents. With a need to counterbalance economic growth with social equality and environmental sustainability, the book proposes innovative approaches... Read more

1. Introduction

Fayyaz Baqir

2. Development Alternatives Beyond the ‘Free Market’: Progressive Capitalism, Democratic Socialism, and Socialism

Susan Spronk

3. Social Reproduction, Social Movements and Market Failure

Adrian Murray

4. Globalization and the Twin Scourges of Illiberalism and Inequality

Syed Mansoob Murshed

5. Gender, Climate, and Conflict in Forced Migration

Tricia Glazebrook

6. Human Greed Versus Human Needs: Decarbonization of the Global Economy

Furqan Asif

7. The Fall of the Dollar

Abdullah Al Mamun and Sanni Yaya

8. Global Capital and Human Migration: Dream and Reality of Free Mobility in Asian Labor Migration Regimes

Kazue Takamura

9. Demography. Development and Demagogues. Is Population Growth Good or Bad for Economic Development?

Sanni Yaya, Helena Yeboah, Ogochukwu Udenigwe

10. Sharing the Pie? The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Sharing/Platform Economy: Distributive Justice Implications

Rasul Bakhsh Rais

11. Uneven Development, Discrimination in Housing and Organized Resistance

Nima Hussein and Josh Hawley

12. Trade Blocks, Trade Wars, and Decolonization:  Glimpses from the Caribbean Sea

Juan Velásquez Atehortúa

13. International Development Financing in a Post-Bretton Woods World

Syed Sajjadur Rahman

14. Turning the Tide on Canada, the Empire: Genuine Reconciliation, Pluriversality, and Indigeneity

Carolyn Laude


15. Civil Society and Fault Lines of the Global Democracy

Fayyaz Baqir

Biography

Fayyaz Baqir is a visiting scholar at the University of Ottawa. He served as senior advisor on civil society at the United Nations, and CEO of Trust for Voluntary Organizations. He received top contributors’ awards from UNDP’s global poverty reduction network.

Sanni Yaya is Full Professor of Economics and Global Health in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa and holds the Senghor Research Chair in Health and Development.