# Professor Arun Sundararajan's book, "The Sharing Economy," is referenced in a story about how Africa can inspire the future of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News January 8, 2019 ![Medium Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/mediumlogo192x144.jpg?itok=OLoZh-MQ)>

Excerpt from [Medium](https://medium.com/swlh/africas-sharing-economy-4b10abf00e96) -- "As Stern School of Business Professor, Arun Sundararajan Sundararajan, explains in his book, 'The Sharing Economy', before the industrial revolution, '. . . a significant percentage of economic activity was peer-to-peer, embedded in community and intertwined in different ways to social relations.'"

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