'The Digital Sharing Economy'



Is it true that sharing is about to be the new having? May societies even be able to overcome the divide between the haves and the have nots sometime? When looking at the new, internet-based markets of the sharing economy, we may come to this conclusion. Or will the dream of a new world of sharing turn out to be just that: a dream, ignorant of the insights of well-established economic theories or of the very fact that virtually all relevant companies in these industries have been run by hard-core capitalists so far? The contributors to this volume address several highly contested issues. They tackle each of them from three different academic perspectives, e.g. economics, philosophy, and theology.