# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the expansion of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News May 27, 2016 ![The Atlantic logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031336.jpg?itok=T4ciY3Gl)>

Excerpt from [The Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/sharing-economy-airbnb-uber-yada/484505/) -- "'To me, what these sharing economy platforms represent is early examples of a different way of organizing economic activity, which sits somewhere between the 20th-century organization and even the 18th-century one-person shop selling to an individual market,' \[[Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan)\] said. 'It’s not a pure sort of marketplace... It’s not a traditional organization like a hotel or a train company, but it’s somewhere in between.'"

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