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A Big Victory for the Sharing Economy
One of the many New York apartments available to rent on Airbnb A New York City Airbnb host has won an appeal with the New York City Environmental Control Board after being fined for renting out a room...
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NYC Startup Offers Software for Airbnb Hosts
When Randy Engler and his wife started renting out their two homes using Airbnb, they soon realized it was hard to provide a high level of hospitality to their guests, especially while away. Engler,...
View ArticleOne Step Back for the Sharing Economy
In a setback for the sharing economy, the Office of the New York Attorney General has issued a subpoena demanding data about all Airbnb hosts in New York, The Wall Street Journal reports. Airbnb...
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Airbnb Rallies its Community to Fight Back
Airbnb hosts in New York are fighting back against policymakers who are trying to rein in the sharing economy. Last week the New York Attorney General subpoenaed the records of all New York Airbnb...
View ArticleEtsy CEO Chad Dickerson on Maker Culture
Etsy represents a new way of connecting handcraft makers to buyers, but it’s rooted in an age-old tradition. As Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson put it, “We represent something really fundamental about...
View ArticleBrookings’s Bradley: A Sharing Economy That Serves All
We know the sharing economy as an efficient and convenient resource, and launchpad for trendy startups like Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit. But the sharing economy could help address needs for a much...
View ArticleFord’s Farley Wants P2P Sharing and Electric Cars for Urban Mobility
As the urban population soars, city streets are growing increasingly traffic-clogged and difficult to navigate, impeding our ease of transit and, more critically, harming our environment. At our...
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Will the Internet of Things Undermine Capitalism?
(Image via Shutterstock) Jeremy Rifkin writes in the New York Times about the future of the collaborative, sharing, free economy, making some original new points. Most notably, he argues that because...
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Airbnb Will Give New York Home-Sharers’ Addresses to State
(Photo: Airbnb) Airbnb has agreed to hand over information about its New York hosts in order to comply with a subpoena it received last week from the New York Attorney General. The NYAG’s office had...
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Internet Grocery Shopping Meets the Sharing Economy
(Image via Shutterstock) San Francisco-based startup Instacart is hoping to trump services like AmazonFresh, Peapod, and FreshDirect in the battle to deliver fresh food to your door. But unlike those...
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Writing the Rules of the Sharing Economy
NYU Professor Arun Sundararajan kicks off the Collaborative, Peer, and Sharing Economy Summit at NYU’s Stern School of Business. (Photo: Annabelle Ladao/PFNYC) The sharing economy has been called the...
View ArticleWant to Donate Your Old Sofa to Charity? There’s an App for That
The sharing economy is rooted in the idea that at any given moment, the things that people own—their tools, their cars, and sometimes even their homes—are sitting idle, ready to be used by someone who...
View ArticleCan a Sharing Platform for Artists Point to a More Equitable Society?
What do you do if you’re an artist in need of supplies, but you happen to be broke? Creative people have been pooling and exchanging resources for generations. Now, the emerging Internet-enabled...
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Sharing Economy in Cities: Moving Towards a More Inclusive Urban Future
The 2008 economic crisis hit Greece hard, and the country is still struggling. The sharing economy could offer some solutions. (Image via Shutterstock) The sharing economy makes headlines daily: from...
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The End of Industries
(Image via Shutterstock) In my field of business journalism, writers have traditionally had “beats” that corresponded to specific industries. One might cover energy, autos, airlines, financial...
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New Economics: Sharing Isn’t Free, and Price Gouging Isn’t Mean
(Image via Shutterstock) The pros and cons of the so-called “sharing economy” are getting plenty of press these days. Consider the diverse takes this week from MIT Technology Review, the New York...
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Governments and Sharing: Lessons from the UK’s Beyond Jobs Project
(Image via Shutterstock) What can governments do to boost the sharing economy? What would be their incentive to do so? Where are the commercial opportunities if public policy were to fully embrace...
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Can Uber Reroute Germany to a Shareable Future?
(Image via Shutterstock) In “The Zero Marginal Cost Society,” published earlier this year, economic theorist and writer Jeremy Rifkin coins the term Collaborative Commons to describe the “digitalized...
View ArticleThe Economics of Sharing
Airbnb, DogVacay, Uber, Lyft and TaskRabbit. A host of new platforms are transforming the economics of sharing. But what does their rapid spread mean for a city and its citizens? Is the sharing economy...
View ArticleApril Rinne of WEF on Regulating the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy has taken off with the dramatic rise of companies like Uber and Airbnb, but the measures to regulate it are lagging far behind. April Rinne of the World Economic Forum says the...
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