# Professor Arun Sundararajan's book, "The Sharing Economy," is highlighted

1 Faculty News August 9, 2016 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2dd6d524-5d53-11e6-bb77-a121aa8abd95.html#axzz4Gq8qezXF) -- "As [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a New York University academic, notes in his new book, The Sharing Economy, the percentage of self-employed workers in 1900 in the US was three times as high as it is today."

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