TY  - BOOK
AU  - Munger,Michael C.
TI  - The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises
SN  - 9780255367929
AV  - HD2961 .M864 2021 
U1  - 334 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - London Publishing Partnership
KW  - Sharing-Economic aspects
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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