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"Sharing economy" is a popular but inaccurate way to describe services like Uber and Airbnb. The chart below suggests what will replace it.
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The sharing economy has become a prominent though not well understood economic phenomenon over the past several years.
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Something died. I feel a sense of loss that I just can’t shake. The Sharing Economy has become an icon and an emblem for a business model rather than a movement. The phrase has taken on a meaning that has everyone questioning the actual altruism of technology-enabled sharing, especially when money is exchanged.
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Technically Incorrect: Vacation rental company HomeAway launches an ad that mercilessly mocks Airbnb and its caring, sharing mentality.
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Debating the sharing economy The “sharing economy” has attracted a great deal of attention in recent months. Platforms such as Airbnb and Uber are experien
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We're living at a dynamic time. Technology is advancing at increasingly compressed rates, radically changing how we interact with our neighbors and across our borders.
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The “sharing economy” is just as often predatory as communal. Yet there are new opportunities for collaboration, sharing, and trust-building at the intersection of urban space and cyberspace.
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Dr Julia Glidden presentation at the Fifth Edition of the Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in eGovernment in Muscat, Oman, on 11-12 January 2016
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An emerging trend in recent years has been the rise of the so-called “sharing economy,” driven by companies like Airbnb and Uber, which allow people to rent out their homes
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One in five adults have worked in the sharing economy, while two in five have used it, according to new report.
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The Sharing Economy: Good, Bad and Real The business models of the past are fast transforming. People are using websites that have developed “sharing” mode
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The Sharing Economy Public Design project, applies a design perspective to this complex problem. By looking at regulation from the perspective of users, we were able to gain a much deeper understanding of the challenges at hand.
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"The 'sharing economy' wasn't supposed to be this way," write Stefanie Ehmsen and Albert Scharenberg in their preface to Trebor Scholz's "Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy," published in January 2016 by Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung's New York Office. The more or less authentically expressed motivations behind the sharing economy (the maximization of underutilized resources, more rewarding peer connections, etc.) sound good, Ehmsen, Scharenberg, and Scholz agree, but the actual result of the rise of mobile-based sharing platforms has been something else altogether. "This new economy is not really about sharing at all," write Ehmsen and Scharenberg. "Rather, as Trebor Scholz argues in this study, it is an on-demand service economy that it spreading market relations deeper into our lives."
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"The sharing economy is making many previously informal or unregulated transactions safer and auditable.
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On TeachersPayTeachers, some educators have been able to convert hours of class preparation into thousands of dollars, and 12 have become millionaires.
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The sharing economy is turning out to be many things. They include: a way to turn more areas of human existence into ad hoc marketplaces; a form of regulatory arbitrage; and an informal economy that facilitates tax evasion.
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A new system of creating value is starting to have a major impact on our economy, the way we produce, the way we consume and the relationship between the t
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We explore how sharing economy business models work, the benefits they bring and the issues and challenges around them.
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Public fridges with free food, community-supported agriculture, borrowing shops and knowledge-sharing: the German capital is at the forefront of a whole new system of trade
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The sharing economy is proving to be a huge driver of economic growth and productivity across the globe, by allowing many of us to use our assets and leverage them to our benefit financially.
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Forty-five million Americans, or 22 percent of the adult population, say they have worked or offered services in the On-Demand Economy, while 86.5 million, or 42 percent of the adult population, have used at least one On-Demand Economy service,...
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