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COWLES FOUNDATION DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 783 "The Share Economy: A Symposium" edited by William D. Nordhaus and John Andrew February 1986 In June 1985, the Yale Economics Department sponsored a half-day conference on Martin
Weitzman’s striking proposal that sharing would be introduced into compensation
arrangements. His suggestions have received wide attention in the popular press and from
economists, but the organizers believed that the suggestions were sufficiently novel and
promising to warrant careful scrutiny from a wide range of points of view. The conference
participants therefore examined the "share economy" from the vantage point of
labor economics, capital theory, general equilibrium theory, and macroeconomics. |
