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The sharing economy : the end of employment and the rise of crowd-based capitalism / Arun Sundararajan.

By: Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2016Description: xiv, 240 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262034579
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 23
LOC classification:
  • HF1025
Other classification:
  • Qa
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cause -- The sharing economy, market economies and gift economies -- Digital foundations : laying the tracks -- The new institutions : understanding platforms -- 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The wide-ranging implications of the shift to a sharing economy, a new model of organizing economic activity that may supplant traditional corporations.

Sharing 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cause -- The sharing economy, market economies and gift economies -- Digital foundations : laying the tracks -- The new institutions : understanding platforms -- 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.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Author's Note and Acknowledgments (p. xi)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Airbnb-Design Your World Right (p. 7)
  • Lyft-Hospitality in Transportation (p. 9)
  • The Rise of the On-Demand Workforce (p. 10)
  • BlaBlaCar-Global Infrastructure Built on Trust (p. 12)
  • The Melding of Commerce and Community (p. 13)
  • La Ruche Qui Dit Oui-Redefining Perfection (p. 16)
  • How to Read This Book (p. 17)
  • I Cause (p. 21)
  • 1 The Sharing Economy, Market Economies, and Gift Economies (p. 23)
  • What Is the Sharing Economy? (p. 26)
  • How Key Early Thinking on the Sharing Economy Evolved (p. 30)
  • Is the Sharing Economy a Gift Economy? (p. 35)
  • The Sharing Economy Spans the Market-to-Gift Spectrum (p. 38)
  • Accommodation (p. 38)
  • Funding (p. 41)
  • Service Platforms (p. 43)
  • The Sharing Economy and Human Connectedness (p. 44)
  • 2 Laying the Tracks: Digital and Socioeconomic Foundations (p. 47)
  • Precursors: eBay, Craigslist, Kozmo (p. 48)
  • Digital Determinants of the Sharing Economy (p. 52)
  • Three Fundamental Forces (p. 52)
  • The Consumerization of the Digital (p. 54)
  • The Digitization of the Physical (p. 55)
  • Decentralized Peer-to-Peer and the Blockchain (p. 58)
  • The Digitization of Trust (p. 60)
  • Socioeconomic Drivers of the Sharing Economy (p. 65)
  • 3 Platforms: Under the Hood (p. 69)
  • Markets and Hierarchies (p. 70)
  • How Digital Technologies Reorganize Economic Activity (p. 72)
  • Are Platforms a New Firm-Market Hybrid? (p. 77)
  • Gansky's "Meshy-ness" Grid (p. 79)
  • Botsman's Four Quadrants (p. 82)
  • Owyang's Honeycomb (p. 82)
  • 4 Biockchain Economies: The Crowd as the Market Maker (p. 85)
  • Understanding Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Exchange (p. 87)
  • Bitcoin (p. 87)
  • OpenBazaar and Smart Contracts (p. 91)
  • Decentralized Service Platforms (p. 94)
  • Value Creation and Capture in Decentralized Exchange (p. 95)
  • Attention, Search, and Discovery (p. 96)
  • Trust and Reputation (p. 97)
  • Logistics 98 Some Challenges and Opportunities (p. 99)
  • II Effect (p. 103)
  • 5 The Economic Impacts of Crowd-Based Capitalism (p. 105)
  • The Trouble with GDP (p. 109)
  • Additional Measurement Challenges in the Digital Economy (p. 111)
  • Four Key Economic Effects (p. 114)
  • Altering Capital "Impact" (p. 114)
  • Economies of Scale and Local "Network Effects" (p. 117)
  • Increased Variety = Increased Consumption (p. 121)
  • The Democratization of Opportunity (p. 123)
  • A Deep Dive into Peer-to-Peer Rental Markets (p. 125)
  • 6 The Shifting Landscape of Regulation and Consumer Protection (p. 131)
  • Why Regulation Still Matters (p. 138)
  • Information Asymmetry (p. 139)
  • Externalities (p. 140)
  • Blurring of Boundaries (p. 141)
  • The Evolution of Regulation: Trust, Institutions, and Brands (p. 142)
  • A Historical Example: The Maghribi Traders (p. 142)
  • Economic Institutions and Brand-Based Trust (p. 144)
  • Where the Sharing Economy Is Taking Regulation (p. 146)
  • Future Regulatory Models (p. 150)
  • Peer Regulation (p. 151)
  • Self-Regulatory Organizations (p. 152)
  • Data-Driven Delegation (p. 155)
  • 7 The Future of Work: Challenges and Controversies (p. 159)
  • "Freelanceability," Offshoring, and Automation (p. 162)
  • Off shoring (p. 162)
  • The Second Machine Age (p. 164)
  • The New Digitally Enabled Workforce (p. 167)
  • New Marketplaces (p. 167)
  • New Generalists (p. 171)
  • Immediacy of Labor Supply (p. 172)
  • Task Economies (p. 173)
  • Invisible Work (p. 175)
  • 8 The Future of Work: What Needs to Be Done (p. 177)
  • Independent Workers and Dependent Contractors (p. 178)
  • The New Social Safety Net (p. 187)
  • How Entrepreneurial Is Your Platform? (p. 192)
  • Incubation (p. 192)
  • Independence (p. 194)
  • Infrastructure (p. 195)
  • Sharing Ownership in the Sharing Economy (p. 196)
  • Data Darwinism (p. 200)
  • 9 Concluding Thoughts (p. 203)
  • Notes (p. 207)
  • Index (p. 229)