Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 5th & K welcomes Arun Sundararajan to discuss his new book The Sharing Economy.
Examining a wide range of peer-to-peer enterprises, Sundararajan shows how information-based ways of organizing services are causing a paradigm shift not just in individual markets but in our very notion of work. A professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and a frequent commentator on the sharing economy, Sundararajan assesses the strengths and weaknesses of existing models including Airbnb, Lyft, TaskRabbit, France’s BlaBlaCar, China’s Didi Kuaidi, and India’s Ola, and speculates about whether crowd-based capitalism will make everyone a potential entrepreneur, independent and flexible, or if it will merely replicate the disenfranchisement of contract work.
