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Every book Arun Sundararajan recommended on podcasts
Arun Sundararajan appeared on the a16z Podcast to discuss the economics of the sharing economy and referenced several significant books during the conversation. He invoked Thomas S. Kuhn's work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to compare problems with measuring gross domestic product to the gaps between observations and theories that can trigger paradigm shifts. Arun also brought up Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century while explaining how broader capital ownership could influence economic inequality, prompting the host to joke about how frequently people cite the text without actually reading it. Furthermore, Arun referred to his own book, The Sharing Economy, while discussing whether the growing trend of millions of small-scale makers would diminish traditional manufacturing economies of scale.
Books recommended by Arun Sundararajan
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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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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“traditional economies of scale come from like having a big manufacturing plant and so it's possible that as we move from massive industrial production to millions of makers who are making things that we may lose some economies of scale but I argue in the book how we're probably going to reclaim some of those”
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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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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| a16z Podcast: An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy | a16z Podcast | 2016-06-16 | 3 |