Arun Sundararajan is Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also an affiliated faculty member at NYU’s Center for Urban Science+Progress, and at NYU’s Center for Data Science.

Professor Sundararajan’s research program studies how digital technologies transform business and society. His current scholarly research focuses on peer-to-peer markets, the sharing economy, digital trust, social media and brand, digital labor, new institutions, regulation, social networks and online privacy.

He has published over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences, and has given more than 200 invited talks at

is research has been recognized by six Best Paper awards, two Google Faculty awards, and a variety of other grants. He has served on numerous editorial boards for scholarly journals. He has provided expert input about the digital economy as part of

His op-eds and expert commentary have appeared in TIME Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Le Monde, El Pais, Wired, TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review, and a variety of radio shows and TV programs.

He has served as Director of NYU Stern’s IS Doctoral Program since 2007, is one of the founders of the Workshop on Information in Networks, is a member of the City of New York’s Technology Advisory Group, and is an advisor to Cisco Systems, OuiShare, the Center for Global Enterprise, and theNational League of Cities.Professor Sundararajan’s new book, The Sharing Economy, is all about crowd-based capitalism will be published in Spring 2016 by the MIT Press.

Topics discussed:

• Crowd based capitalism
• The impact of blockchain on the sharing economy
• The freelance economy and what it means for generalists v specialists
• The role of regulators in the sharing economy
• Consultant marketplaces
• The importance of being adaptable in the 21st Century

Show Notes:

• oz.stern.nyu.edu/
• @digitalarun on Twitter 
• Get the book – www.amazon.co.uk/Sharing-Economy-…wd…/0262034573

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