Arun Sundararajan

New York University

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Arun Sundararajan is Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at New York University, where his research studies how digital technologies transform business and society. He is the author of The Sharing Economy; The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-based Capitalism.

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The gig economy grows up

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