What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption“Amidst a thousand tirades against the excesses and waste of consumer society, What’s Mine Is Yours offers us something genuinely new and invigorating: a way out.” —Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map A groundbreaking and original book, What’s Mine is Yours articulates for the first time the roots of "collaborative consumption," Rachel Botsman and Roo Roger's timely new coinage for the technology-based peer communities that are transforming the traditional landscape of business, consumerism, and the way we live. Readers captivated by Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, Van Jones’ The Green Collar Economy or Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will be wowed by this landmark contribution to the evolving ecology of commerce and sustainability. |
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User Review - akmargie - LibraryThingA well reasoned and researched defense of the new collaborative economy. Also a well-laid argument against traditional consumption economy models. Read full review
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User Review - Steve55 - LibraryThingThis is an extremely important book that I urge you to read. It’s clear to most of us that the way we live in the West is unsustainable. The amount we consume in order to satisfy our urge to own, is ... Read full review
Contents
One Enough Is Enough | 3 |
Two AllConsuming | 19 |
Three From Generation Me | 41 |
Four The Rise of Collaborative | 67 |
Five Better Than Ownership | 97 |
Six What Goes Around Comes Around | 123 |
Seven We Are All in This Together | 153 |
iMpliCations | 183 |
Nine Community Is the Brand | 199 |
Ten The Evolution | 211 |
Acknowledgments | 227 |
Collaborative Consumption Hub | 235 |
Notes | 243 |
Index | 269 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption |
| Authors | Rachel Botsman, Roo Rogers |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0062014056, 9780062014054 |
| Length | 304 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / General |
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