Future² Ep. #33 – the Sharing Economy With Arun Sundararajan

Summary

Arun Sundararajan is Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also an affiliated faculty member at NYU’s Center for Urban Science+Progress, and at NYU’s Center for Data Science.

Professor Sundararajan’s research program studies how digital technologies transform business and society. His current scholarly research focuses on peer-to-peer markets, the sharing economy, digital trust, social media and brand, digital labor, new institutions, regulation, social networks and online privacy.

Topics discussed:

– Crowd based capitalism – The impact of blockchain on the sharing economy – The freelance economy and what it means for generalists v specialists – The role of regulators in the sharing economy – Consultant marketplaces – The importance of being adaptable in the 21st Century