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Property in the sharing economy: paradox, disruption, and institutional design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2024

Sally Zhu*
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Abstract

This special issue aims to unravel the deeply intertwined dialectics between property and sharing. We do so by examining the paradoxes thrown up as legal forms of property interact with the emergent economic activity of sharing, and investigating how these may be resolved by designing institutional frameworks to better align their values. These paradoxes are sometimes productive, driving property and sharing forward to produce new configurations of use and privilege; sometimes disruptive, as sharing throws new light on how property orders economic and social relations by pushing against the boundaries of established property forms. But they are always revealing.

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Introductory Essay
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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