We are very pleased to feature Arun Sundarajan for the launch of our new series of podcasts with OuiShare Fest 2014 speakers. Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University, Arun specializes in digital economics. He is now conducting research on the sharing revolution, of which the results will be annouced at OuiShare Fest. It was great talking with Arun, and actually even more interesting listening to him talk about his upcoming research. 27 minutes was not certainly not enough
- if I had not had to be somewhere, I could have kept going for a few hours. The blend of economics, tech, history, politics, privacy and about ten other things left me with more questions and I am sure my IQ went up a few points while I was editing. I get the feeling that he knows where he is going as he is so firmly grounded in the present, he has a huge optimism for what is coming and a distinct respect for how we got here. While I used words terms like "old skool" and "stuck" Arun spoke of adaptation and evolution. There are show notes below, and if you would like to hear more from Arun, you should join him this May in at OuiShare Fest in Paris.Arun on twitter
Arun's professional bio: Professor Arun Sundararajan's research program studies digital economics and how information technologies transform business and society. Some of his current and recent research focuses on the emergence of digital institutions to facilitate economic and political development, contagion in networks and social media, online privacy, pricing in digital markets and managing digital piracy. He has published in journals including Decision Support Systems, Economics Letters, Information Systems Research, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Management Information Systems,Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Statistical Science andSocial Networks, and has given more than 200 conference and invited presentations internationally. His research has won three Best Paper awards and has been recently profiled by trade publications that include Fast Company, the Financial Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal.