R.J. Lehmann on Ensuring the Sharing Economy Thrives

The so-called sharing economy is many things to many people. To
Wall Street and Silicon Valley, firms
like Uber and Airbnb offer tantalizing market
capitalizations, the likes of which have not been seen since the
go-go 90s. At the same time, political operatives see the emerging
debates over regulation of ride-sharing and space-sharing as a
potential opening for the libertarian right to assert
their world view in urban politics for the first time in a long
time. R.J. Lehmann writes that where lawmakers do find the need to
pass new legislation to deal with sharing economy services, they
should take this opportunity to significantly scale back, rather
than increase, reliance on occupational licensure. 

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