Why the Government Doesn’t Need to Regulate the Sharing Economy

Summary

The state of Minnesota briefly banned free online education. But this isn’t an isolated government dispute in regulating the “sharing economy” – whether Coursera, Uber, and Airbnb, or TaskRabbit, Zipcar, and Couchsurfer. It’s a mistake to assume that just because technology provides “new leverage for old behaviors” that we need old ways of regulating new things.