# Professor Arun Sundararajan's comments at a panel discussion on the sharing economy are referenced

1 Faculty News February 23, 2016 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](http://qz.com/614218/the-scariest-thing-about-the-gig-economy-is-how-little-we-actually-know-about-it/) -- "'When there’s a group of contractors who say, 'I want a different model' … they’re not asking for the model of full-time employment, they’re asking for the nice things that come with it,' said [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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