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In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as "crowd-based capitalism" - a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model. As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, how will the economy, government regulation, what it means to have a job, and our social fabric be affected?

Affittare un appartamento con Airbnb, spostarsi con Blablacar, Uber o, più ecologicamente, con il bike sharing, cenare prenotando con Gnammo, dopo aver lasciato il cane a un dog-sitter trovato con Petme: benvenuti nel mondo della sharing economy e delle sue miriadi di applicazioni. C’è chi la vede come una soluzione alla crisi, per compensare redditi falcidiati dalla globalizzazione e per assicurare prezzi minori rispetto al mercato. Ma è anche il regno del lavoro non tutelato, della concorrenza sleale, dell'elusione di standard, garanzie e imposte.

In What’s Yours Is Mine, internationally acclaimed technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk.

Traditional businesses follow a simple formula: create a product or service, sell it, collect money. But in the last few years a fundamentally different model has taken root—one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more peer-to-peer power. Pioneering entrepreneur Lisa Gansky calls it the Mesh and reveals why it will dominate the future of business.