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How Everyone Gets the ‘Sharing’ Economy Wrong – WSJ
Uber, Lyft, Instacart and other ‘sharing economy’ startups aren’t just remarkably efficient marketplaces, they’re remark… Read more
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The real sharing economy doesn’t require apps, just kindness | Grist
In the middle of a trans-continent bike trip, our hero discovers that in rural America, sharing comes naturally. Read more
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The Greek Crisis
Useful website pulling together articles and news coverage on the Greek economic crisis. Read more
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Social enterprise Petit Miracles upcycles both furniture and lives
Social enterprise Petit Miracles offers a new lease of life to furniture, and to the long-term unemployed people responsible for… Read more
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People Powered Money: CCIA release new guide on community currencies
A new how-to guide on creating your own community currency covering everything from currency design to project management. Peopl… Read more
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The Other Side of the Coin
In a deprived district of the small Belgian city of Ghent, the local Toreke coin reveals how big the transformative impact of al… Read more
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Sustaining hierarchy – Uber isn’t sharing
Today’s most known representatives of the sharing economy discussed in global media are online platforms built on top of ventu… Read more
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Denmark moves step closer to being a cashless country
The Danish government proposes getting rid of the obligation for certain retailers to accept payment in cash. Read more
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Is the Local Economy Too Local? Why Co-Ops and Credit Unions Need a Broader Strategy
This is a story about the revolutionaries next door. If you live in a place hard hit by recent economic decline, chances are you… Read more
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Neighborhood Exchange Boxes Help Geneva Reuse 32 Tons of Goods
On street corners throughout Switzerland, colorful painted boxes the size of a pay phone booth declare: BOITES D’ECHANGE E… Read more
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Kenya: Solar Panels for Trees? Kenya Barters to Rebuild Its Forests
In an effort to reverse tree losses in the Nyeri Forest, an environmental initiative has turned to an unusual barter system, off… Read more
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The conflict at the heart of modern money
Turning money into a positive force for social change requires detaching it from its role in storing value, according to this ar… Read more
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How the sharing economy could help repair our sense of community
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day’s breaking news and current events as well… Read more
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Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy
“The potential benefits of the blockchain are more than just economic — they extend into political, humanitarian, social, an… Read more
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Recycling is not enough! Sharing is the way to achieve a circular economy – The Ecologist
How can we reduce our ever increasing throughput of raw materials? By breaking out the the ‘iron cage of consumerism’… Read more
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In This Bike-Sharing Plan, You Buy a $1,000 Cycle and Rent It Yourself
Popular Mechanics is a service magazine covering a variety of information on home improvement, automotive needs, electronics, co… Read more
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The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
Author Brett Scott tells you how to download Rogue PDF copy of his book. Read more
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Why Do We Share? Researchers Probe Motivation in P2P Systems
In a just published study, researchers investigated the motivations driving users to peer-to-peer services like timebanks. Read more
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How to Design a Sharing Market (Hint: Empathy Matters) | Markus Giesler
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick raises an important issue. Most people think that the sharing economy is all about convenience and the … Read more
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Does the `Sharing Economy’ Provide Good Jobs? – Bloomberg Business
Feb. 6 — Bloombergâs Tom Keene, Brendan Greeley and Olivia Sterns report on the Twitter question of the day. BlackRoc… Read more
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From sharing economy to gift ecology
Instead of economy leading the sharing revolution, it might be led by generosity. Read more
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2015: The year of the sharing economy for cities – Opinion More Opinion Stories ST Editorial – The Straits Times
Opinion More Opinion Stories – Last month, after presenting to the Greek government and hoteliers on the sharing economy a… Read more
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Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, engineering and economics by Pedro Franco [Review]
New book promises financial professionals a comprehensive guide to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Read more
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Research Debating the Sharing Economy
An insightful sociological perspective on the sharing economy. Read more
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Bitcoin, the first ‘app’ in the “internet of Money”
Bitcoin-style services could open up finance to five billion people on the planet Read more
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Systems Learning – Systems Thinking for a sustainable future
Systems Learning is an online learning resource, designed so you can quickly browse, or deeply absorb. The course is structured … Read more
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Sowing the seeds of a new economy
Practical alternative economic models are rapidly taking shape in practice in Catalonia. Are the indignados finally harvesting? Read more
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The Commons as a New | Old Paradigm for Governance, Economics and Policy
The commons is a general template of governance that has deep roots in human history as a system of self-provisioning, responsib… Read more
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Against Sharing | Jacobin
Arguments against the sharing economy… Read more
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A Plain English Explanation of Local Currency and How it Works – The Internet Patrol
Here is a fantastic, plain English local currency definition and explanation of how local currency works from economics professo… Read more
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