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Is Uber disruptive?

Benjamin G. Edelman (Harvard) and Damien Geradin (George Mason): Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? Benjamin G. Edelman (Harvard): Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks. Benjamin Means and Joseph Seiner (South Carolina): Navigating the Uber Economy. In new push, Uber tries to position itself as the cure for America’s economic ills. Is Uber’s ultimate goal the privatisation of city governance? Brian O’Keefe and Marty Jones on how Uber plays the tax shell game. How companies like Uber work around regulations, avoid paying taxes, and shaft their workers: Matt Connolly reviews Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers by Steven Hill. Is Uber disruptive? Joshua Gans investigates. The rating game: Josh Dzieza on how Uber and its peers turned us into horrible bosses.

Uber is not the future of work: Gig-enabling apps are a distraction from the uncertainties that affect far more people — will workers get paid enough and are their jobs safe? The Uber Counterculture: John Herrman on chatter and dissent in the trenches of the sharing economy.