# Prof. Arun Sundararajan's House testimony on the sharing economy is featured

1 Faculty News January 16, 2014 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/01/16/1744662/congress-takes-a-casual-look-at-the-peer-to-peer-economy/) -- "Urban residents have shared their assets and space informally for centuries, but innovative network technologies and social tools have made co-producing, lending, trading and renting assets cheaper and easier than ever before—and therefore possible on a much larger scale."

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