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Posted on June 28, 2015

Uber, sharing and the compensation mechanism

We currently are in the Wild West of "sharing." Many people hate that term but I actually think it is useful. I would define the "Sharing Economy" as follows: 1. Individuals own key assets -- cars, dwellings, their time etc. 2. There exists a market platform to match those individuals with consumers that satisfies the …

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Posted on January 1, 2015

The morality of price spikes

New Years Eve has come and gone and with it the annual discussion regarding whether Uber's 'surge pricing' is justifiable (for example, here is Slate and here is an excellent set of points from Tim B. Lee at Vox.  For the uninitiated, 'surge pricing' occurs when Uber's algorithms automatically raise the price of rides to …

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