Episode · a16z Podcast · 2016-06-16
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the "sharing economy" (or "gig economy" and so on) is here to stay.
Erik Torenberg discussed The Sharing Economy by Arun Sundararajan. Arun Sundararajan discussed The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn and Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Sharing Economy
The Sharing Economy by Arun Sundararajan explores the profound economic and societal transformations driven by digital platforms, peer-to-peer commerce, and decentralized labor markets.
Discussed“and the other reason we're gonna stick to it is because it happens to be the title of a runes new book which is called the sharing economy the end of employment and the rise of crowd-based capitalism”
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S.
Discussed“but now as crowd-based capitalism goes mainstream it's going to highlight how there's a big disconnect between what we're measuring which is GDP and what we value as things that really point to progress and so as this gap starts to grow I think much like there's a gap between the observations and the theories that leads to a paradigm”
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty examines wealth concentration and economic inequality in capitalist economies.
Discussed“and one of the things we learnt a couple of years ago from piketty's book capital in the 21st century that book that everybody talks about but nobody's actually read misusing you because you're allowed to talk about it anyway but yeah everybody quotes from it”
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