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The Sharing Economy

byArun Sundararajan

Economist Arun Sundararajan examines the rise of platforms that enable people to exchange rides, rooms, services, and other assets directly. He explains how digital trust systems and network effects blur traditional boundaries between personal and commercial activity, employee and contractor, ownership and access. The book evaluates the sharing economy's promise of efficiency and entrepreneurship alongside concerns about labor protections, discrimination, taxation, and platform power. Sundararajan argues that older regulatory categories fit these markets poorly and proposes new approaches that preserve innovation while distributing benefits and responsibilities more fairly.

Publisher

MIT PRESS

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

256

ISBN

9780262034579