The Sharing Economy : Its Pitfalls and Promises.

COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SUMMARY -- FIGURES -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 REVOLUTIONS AND DISRUPTION -- Transaction costs and commodifying excess capacity -- Owning, renting and the commodification of excess capacity -- Cost in two-sided markets: who is buying and who is selling? -- 3 PLATFORMS AND OWNERSHIP -- Selling trust raises the problem of antitrust -- Platforms don't sell stuff -- Decentralised 'retail' ownership is too expensive -- Wikipedia and tool libraries: beyond rental -- 4 COMMODIFYING EXCESS CAPACITY -- 5 MIDDLEMEN: SELLERS OF TRANSACTION COST REDUCTION -- The middleman platform economy -- Back to transaction costs: why ownership is too expensive -- 6 RIDE-SHARING -- Uber: the origin -- Not a taxi company? -- Surge pricing -- 7 PROBLEMS WITH DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY -- Sabotage: when the referee is also a player -- A different example: 'Uber but for planes' -- Fairness, exclusion and 'social credit' -- 8 CONCLUSION -- Change as a constant -- Saltation -- Separation -- The general answer: permissionless innovation -- Final words: the next three crises -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE IEA.

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