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The sharing economy: poverty of ambition
A lot of what is called Sharing is not really Sharing, Much of what is claimed to be new about the Sharing Economy is not really new, and the Sharing Economy, however defined, is not a solution to the big economic problems we face.
Rob Killick,
UK After the Recession, 20 February 2015
Fattigdom snart ett minne blott
Det är väl belagt att bistånd tenderar att försämra förutsättningarna för utveckling, att det bidrar till korruption och väpnade konflikter.
Fredrik Segerfeldt, SVT, 3 November 2014
Why We’re in a New Gilded Age
Thomas Piketty has led a revolution in our understanding of long-term trends in inequality.
Paul Krugman,
New York Review of Books, 8 May 2014
How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other
The sharing economy has come on so quickly and powerfully that regulators and economists are still grappling to understand its impact. But one consequence is already clear: Many of these companies have us engaging in behaviors that would have seemed unthinkably foolhardy as recently as five years ago.
Jason Tanz,
Wired, 23 April 2014
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