# Professor Arun Sundararajan is interviewed about regulation of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News May 15, 2017 ![The New Yorker logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032750.jpg?itok=hERliZMl)>

Excerpt from [The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/15/is-the-gig-economy-working) -- "'Someone who’s hosting on Airbnb might say, "Well, this is my space. I only want a certain kind of guest in my spare bedroom,"' [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), an N.Y.U. business professor, says. Is that unreasonably discriminatory? In a new book, 'The Sharing Economy,' he proposes a halfway measure like Airbnb’s: self-regulation in collaboration with government."

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