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100 1 _aSundararajan, Arun,
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe sharing economy :
_bthe end of employment and the rise of crowd-based capitalism /
_cArun Sundararajan.
264 1 _a[S.l. :
_bs.n.],
_c
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c[2016]
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2016]
300 _a1 PDF (256 pages).
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.
505 0 _aAcknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cause -- The sharing economy, market economies and gift economies -- Laying the tracks : digital and socioeconomical foundations -- Platforms : under the hood -- Blockchain economies : the crowd as the market maker -- Effect -- The economic impacts of crowd-based capitalism -- The shifting landscape of regulation and consumer protection -- The future of work : challenges and controversies -- The future of work : what needs to be done -- Concluding thoughts -- Notes -- Index.
506 1 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aSharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club -- these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the "sharing economy," is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are providing these services to a stranger for money. In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as "crowd-based capitalism" -- a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model. As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, how will the economy, government regulation, what it means to have a job, and our social fabric be affected?Drawing on extensive research and numerous real-world examples -- including Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Etsy, TaskRabbit, France's BlaBlaCar, China's Didi Kuaidi, and India's Ola, Sundararajan explains the basics of crowd-based capitalism. He describes the intriguing mix of "gift" and "market" in its transactions, demystifies emerging blockchain technologies, and clarifies the dizzying array of emerging on-demand platforms. He considers how this new paradigm changes economic growth and the future of work. Will we live in a world of empowered entrepreneurs who enjoy professional flexibility and independence? Or will we become disenfranchised digital laborers scurrying between platforms in search of the next wedge of piecework? Sundararajan highlights the important policy choices and suggests possible new directions for self-regulatory organizations, labor law, and funding our social safety net.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aDescription based on PDF viewed 01/18/2017.
650 0 _aEconomic geography.
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650 0 _aSpace in economics.
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650 0 _aCapitalism
_xSocial aspects.
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650 0 _aBusiness networks.
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655 0 _aElectronic books.
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710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
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710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
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710 2 _aJSTOR (Organization)
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856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7580022
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