Examine the sharing economy within the Veblenian‘ lens and reevaluate this social innovation with Veblen’s understanding of human history and knowledge economy background. After this reflection, critically discuss our current models of economic and social behavior and finally present alternatives to today’s market order and its barbaric predatory practices. (Sharing Economy Abstract - file).
For that, please, use Veblen work and the theoretical framework of the Original Institutional School (OIE). Gagnon 2007 and Dugger are fundamental to explain the knowledge economy in the Institutional Economics context and in the analysis of Shared Economy as a social innovation with a collaborative work as presented in Acquier 2017 (the Community-Based economics and the Platform Economy that combined result in the Community-Based platform). This idea that technologies are a social tool or enablers of the resumption of behaviors prevalent in peaceful cultures (the instinct of workmanship concept). i.e., the sharing economy can potentially shift the power away from centralized institutions toward decentralized ones and create deinstitutionalized forms of production and value creation as in the peaceful societies — the complexity of this new social structure can lead to the emergence of new measures of progress and wealth redefining the meaning of social relations, e.g., work.
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