Beyond Free Market

Social Inclusion and Globalization

Fayyaz Baqir, Sanni Yaya

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000396188
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: Economics

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 to address key questions on the contemporary global economy such as, "Is the Global socio-economic order supportive of the pursuit of rational and enlightened self -interest?", "Is it a unipolar power centre and neoliberal economic policy regime?", "Can the system reinvent itself?", etc. One approach encourages going back to the golden past and making things "great again", insisting that history has ended and the failures of old global institutions be blamed on the "Clash of Civilizations". Another approach advocates giving up the intellectual comfort zone of elegant but irrelevant neo-liberal explanations of global challenges and asking new questions that take academic debate to the public square. The book examines the internal challenges and contradictions that cause disintegration and proposes alternative ideas and practices in moving the global community beyond the free market regime.

The book will appeal to students and academics of development studies, political economy, political science, sociology, as well as policymakers and public opinion makers interested in creating a new egalitarian global society.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Development alternatives beyond the “free market”: 
Progressive capitalism and democratic socialism
• 3 Social reproduction, social movements 
and market failure
• 4 Globalization and the twin scourges of illiberalism 
and inequality
• 5 Gender, climate, and conflict in forced migration
• 6 Human greed versus human needs: Decarbonization 
of the global economy
• 7 The fall of the dollar
• 8 Dream and reality of free mobility in asian labor 
migration regimes
• 9 Demography, development and demagogues. 
Is population growth good or bad for economic 
development?
• 10 Sharing the pie? The fourth industrial revolution 
and the sharing/platform economy: Distributive 
justice implications
• 11 Uneven development, discrimination in housing 
and organized resistance
• 12 The fear for another revolution/colonialism: 
The evolution of the monroe doctrine as an instrument 
of racist domination and hegemony in the caribbean
• 13 International development financing in a post-bretton 
woods world
• 14 Turning the tide on canada, the empire: Genuine 
reconciliation, pluriversality, and indigeneity
• 15 Civil society and the fault lines of global democracy
• Index