# Professor Arun Sundararajan on regulation of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News August 20, 2015 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/when-sharing-scaring) -- "'We generally don't start by saying let's get the government involved,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), professor of information, operations and management sciences at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'In the American economy, what we've traditionally done is let the market provide what it can and then have the government step in and surgically correct market failures.'"

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