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.

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.

1. Introduction 2. Development Alternatives Beyond the 'Free Market': Progressive Capitalism, Democratic Socialism, and 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. Global Capital and Human Migration: 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 Sharing/Platform Economy: Distributive Justice Implications 11. Uneven Development, Discrimination in Housing and Organized Resistance 12. Trade Blocks, Trade Wars, and Decolonization: Glimpses from the Caribbean Sea 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 Fault Lines of the Global Democracy