What's Mine Is Yours Intl: The Rise Of Collaborative Consumption

Author: Rachel Botsman

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  • : $18.99 AUD
  • : 9780062046451
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : Harper Paperbacks
  • : August 2010
  • : 228m x 151m
  • : October 2010
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Barcode 9780062046451
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Description

The recent changes in our economic landscape have notably exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and craigslist to emerging sectors such as peer-to-peer lending (Zopa) and car sharing (Zipcar), Collaborative Consumption is disrupting outdated modes of business and reinventing not only "what" we consume, but "how" we consume.


While ranging enormously in scale and purpose, these companies and organizations are redefining how goods and services are exchanged, valued, and created--in areas as diverse as finance and travel, agriculture and technology, education and retail. Traveling among global entrepreneurs and pioneers and exploring rising ventures as well as established companies adapting to these opportunities, the authors outline in bold and imaginative ways how Collaborative Consumption may very well change the world.