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

1 Faculty News May 4, 2016 ![Strategy and Business logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/strategy-business.jpg?itok=Koj8hZdo)>

Excerpt from [Strategy + Business](http://www.strategy-business.com/article/Share-and-Share-Alike?gko=a2f27) -- "This smartphone-enabled, venture capital–fueled phenomenon cries out for a biography, a taxonomy, and an impact analysis. In *The Sharing Economy*, [Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) supplies all of those things. While much of the book will be familiar to someone who follows events in this world — he spends a good bit of time explaining how platforms such as Airbnb and Lyft actually work — it’s a useful and fundamentally optimistic attempt to explain where the sharing economy came from, and where it’s going."

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