# Prof. Arun Sundararajan's research on how the sharing economy can benefit low-income consumers is featured

1 Faculty News March 16, 2015 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/16/the-real-promise-of-the-sharing-economy-is-what-it-could-do-for-the-poor/) -- "This picture of who's doing the sharing in the sharing economy today makes this argument from NYU's Samuel Fraiberger and [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) provocative: In the long run, they argue in a new paper, the people who stand to benefit the most from new peer-to-peer rental marketplaces for everything from cars to gadgets are low-income consumers."

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