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Index
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Author’s Note and Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Cause
1 The Sharing Economy, Market Economies, and Gift Economies
2 Laying the Tracks: Digital and Socioeconomic Foundations
3 Platforms: Under the Hood
4 Blockchain Economies: The Crowd as the Market Maker
II Effect
5 The Economic Impacts of Crowd-Based Capitalism
6 The Shifting Landscape of Regulation and Consumer Protection
7 The Future of Work: Challenges and Controversies
8 The Future of Work: What Needs to Be Done
9 Concluding Thoughts
Index
Table 3.1 Platforms: hierarchies, markets, or hybrids?
Table 8.1 Definitions of “employee” under selected statutes
Table 8.2 Estimated percentage of workers who want a different type of employment, 2005
Table 8.3 Factors in assessing a platform’s support of entrepreneurship
Figure 0.1 Paid US workforce, 1900–1960.
Figure 0.2 Some sharing economy platforms and the venture capital they have raised as of December 2015.
Figure 2.1 Sharing economy platforms across a few industries, 2015.
Figure 2.2 Example of a Traity profile.
Figure 3.1 A simple schematic of the MYB framework.
Figure 3.2 A schematic of Gansky’s Meshy-ness Grid.
Figure 3.3 Collaborative Economy Honeycomb.
Figure 5.1 Vehicle usage in the United States (compiled from NHTS data as of 2009).
Figure 5.2 Growth rate of total factor productivity for each ten-year period (i.e., for the decades ending 1900 to 2010).
Figure 5.3 The geographic footprint of Airbnb listings in New York City.
Figure 5.4 Lower-income neighborhoods in San Francisco are more active users of peer-to-peer car rental.
Figure 6.1 The “de Blasio” button, part of 2015 Uber campaign to fight a proposed cap on providers.
Figure 6.2 The many facets of trust in the sharing economy.
Figure 6.3 How taxicab usage varies with racial composition of neighborhood in New York City. Source: Mode Analytics.
Figure 7.1 Wage comparison in San Francisco, summer 2015.
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