# Professor Arun Sundararajan's book, The Sharing Economy, is highlighted as a top business book of 2016 by Matthew Bishop of The Economist

1 Faculty News December 22, 2016 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036094.jpg?itok=_rclvGY6)>

Excerpt from [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-top-business-books-2016-matthew-bishop) -- "\[[Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan)'s\] excellent analysis is appropriately sceptical at times about whether there is anything virtuous about this sort of 'sharing', and sets out with great clarity why regulators need to keep a close eye on what is going on and why the potential implications for workers may require new policies and institutions to manage the insecurities of eking out a living in the 'gig economy' of Uber World."

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