# Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on the growth of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News January 28, 2017 ![Motherboard Vice Logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/motherboard192x144.jpg?itok=OdjXo60o)>

Excerpt from [Motherboard](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-woman-tried-to-make-friends-by-living-off-the-sharing-economy-for-a-year) -- "The way Eriksson has been living her life for the past year is a glimpse of how a growing number of us will be living in the future, according to [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), New York University business professor and author of The Sharing Economy. ... 'We’re transitioning into an alternative of corporations and mass production,' Sundararajan says."

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