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The dark side of the sharing economy … and how to lighten it

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Improving the sharing economy will require addressing myriad problems.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 11
          November 2014
          95 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2684442
          • Editor:
          • Moshe Y. Vardi
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