# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on sharing economy start-ups that sell people's second-hand goods

1 Faculty News July 24, 2014 ![TIME logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025660.jpg?itok=PFxttUnQ)>

Excerpt from [TIME](http://time.com/3028066/recycle-reuse-reproft-startups-try-to-make-money-selling-your-stuff/) -- "'People are seeking out human connection in our day-to-day economic transactions,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a business professor at New York University who studies these budding economies. 'There is a noneconomic value that comes from giving your stuff to other people'"

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