The Indonesian government recently announced it would start to regulate app-based ride-sharing services such as Uber, Grab Taxi and Gojek.
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The deal, in which drivers won’t pursue their claim to be employees in exchange for the cash and other changes, raises more questions than it answers.
Presidential candidates are using voter anger to fuel more divisions and discord rather than to start a conversation about the collapse of collective bargaining.
The disruption happening thanks to algorithms is happening all around us.
Financial services are being digitally disrupted, but the idea of a financial “sharing” economy replacing traditional banking ignores reality.
As online marketplaces mature, a raft of new service-based companies are popping up around them.
Moves to legalise Uber and Airbnb are paving the way for better protection of all parties involved.
There are few markets that have easier entry and exit than those in the sharing economy.
Unions are in a self-described crisis. The well-known tale of union decline in Australia continues with the latest figures revealing less than 15% of workers are members of unions, with that dropping to…
Economists love Uber’s surge pricing. But it is doomed, because customers hate it. Why? Surge pricing occurs when the supply and demand for Uber vehicles becomes unbalanced, for example, due to inclement…
The tax law established pre-internet is failing to keep up with the digital economy.
An advocate for the power of innovation to improve the world offers some cautions.
Time to stop trying to make disruptive technology businesses like Uber tow the line, and instead create the right conditions for all businesses to embrace innovation.
Labor’s sharing economy guidelines should help make for a more nuanced debate about the collaborative economy.
Whatever happens to Uber’s legal status in Australia, it’s likely consumers will be the eventual winners.
Two visions of the ‘new economy’, one based on environmental and social justice values, the other on disruptive technologies, are coming together to challenge the status quo.
The economist Frédéric Bastiat didn’t experience the “sharing economy,” but he knew the ludicrousness of wailing against a “foreign technology.”
The most radical reinvention of work since the rise of industrialization is upon us, as more of us drift toward app-enabled self-employment.
There’s a global race on to harness mapping technology, delivering companies the data they need to gain a competitive advantage.
Democratising the sharing economy might reduce profits but it would probably benefit people and the environment more.
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