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

1 Faculty News January 25, 2019 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonyounger/2019/01/25/lets-stop-the-fixation-on-how-many-freelancers-the-revolution-is-real/#4ec8b5a93402)-- "In the Talent Economy, the customer is actually buying the skill and expertise of the Talent - the platform is merely a “market maker” to paraphrase [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) and other pundits, that reduces the inefficiency of traditional employment and staffing markets, and enables the discovery of talent that is otherwise invisible to the customer."

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