# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the increasing scope of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News April 27, 2016 ![BBC News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030504.jpg?itok=xD3gBRnr)>

Excerpt from [BBC News](http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35362199) -- "'We are now in the early stages of a different model of organising economic activity,' says [Prof Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) at New York University. Indeed he argues the sharing economy taps into a basic human need. 'We are wired for social connection. The appeal \[of sharing\] is to integrate some semblance of human interaction into our economic activities.'"

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