# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on why government should share regulation of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News December 17, 2014 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d3bd6750-848d-11e4-bae9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3MM13cIYh) -- "'Steady incomes and a social safety net are characteristics of a healthy economy which has moved past simply getting people to work for a living to creating a higher quality of existence,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University’s Stern School. 'I worry that this could slip away.'"

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