Risk in the Sharing Economy

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5099-5477-3
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Reihe: Hart Publishing

Sharing economy promised a way of using property for the mutual benefit of owners and consumers, but in the last decade it has only worked to profit large commercial platforms. This book shows how institutions of risk management are part of this problem and offers a solution: collaborative risk structures.

The book uncovers risk as the missing element in accounts of property theory and sharing economy. Drawing on diverse insights from economic theory and legal studies, it explains how property and private law form a risk management infrastructure which reinforces private property, and examines the paralysing effects this has on sharing, by constraining it to extractive market relations and stifling its collaborative potential.

The book argues that overcoming these constraints is key to realising collaborative property and curbing the drawbacks of private ownership. It proposes institutional design principles and offers heuristic solutions such as radical uses of private law tools and insurance mechanisms to build a collaborative risk system capable of supporting more equitable and diversified forms of sharing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhu, Sally Shinan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. The Sharing Experiment
2. Property as Resource Management
3. The Infrastructure of Private Property
4. Value in the Sharing Economy
5. A Risk Infrastructure for Sharing
6. Private and Collaborative Property: Negotiating the Paradox
7. Proposals for a Collaborative Risk System
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Zhu, Sally Shinan
Sally Shinan Zhu is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow (Law) at the University of Glasgow, UK.