# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on how to regulate Uber and other sharing economy platforms

1 Faculty News April 17, 2014 ![BBC News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030504.jpg?itok=xD3gBRnr)>

Excerpt from [BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01x5dq3) -- "It's not clear that we need all of the regulations that we needed in the past, now that we have these platforms that have reputation systems that have companies behind them that are sort of doing some of the things that we used to need the government for."

[Read more](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01x5dq3)

Additional coverage appeared on [KQED](http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/04/16/airbnb-san-francisco/).