What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Bernays
• Novak
• Adam Smith
• Craig Newmark
• Hughes
• Manzini
• Kalin
• Boesel
• Moore
• Neuberg
• Anderson
• Fenton
• Rachel
• Duvall
• Porritt
• Louise
• Stephanie
• Daniels
• Carrie
• Feinberg
• Zilok

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• “...instead of trying to change consumers, the system itself has changed to accommodate needs and wants in a more sustainable and appealing way, with little burden on the individual.”

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• four critical underlying principles—critical mass; idling capacity; belief in the commons; and trust between strangers.

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• To build on an idea Charles Leadbeater discussed in his book We-Think, in the twentieth century of hyper-consumption we were defined by credit, advertising, and what we owned; in the twenty-first century of Collaborative Consumption we will be defined by reputation, by community, and by what we can access and how we share and what we give away.13

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• “Sharing is to ownership what the iPod is to the eight track, what the solar panel is to the coal mine. Sharing is clean, crisp, urbane, postmodern; owning is dull, selfish, timid, backward,”

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• Redistribution is the fifth “R”—reduce, recycle, reuse, repair, and redistribute—and is increasingly considered a sustainable form of commerce.

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• the role of their companies is to act as curators and ambassadors, creating platforms that facilitate self-managed exchanges and contributions.

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• There are four big forces that have played a critical role in manipulating and feeding hyper-consumption: the power of persuasion; the buy now, pay later culture; the law of life cycles; and the “just one more” factor.

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• “On the whole, you find wealth much more in use than in ownership.”

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• Sociologist Robert K. Merton identified five sources of unintended consequences: ignorance, error, immediate interest, basic values, and self-defeating prophecy.

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• “access is better than ownership.”1

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• United States
• America
• New York
• Uk
• London
• Europe
• Los Angeles
• Amazon
• England
• Texas
• China
• Brooklyn
• Zopa

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Rachel Botsman (Author)
2. Roo Rogers (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: HC79.C6B68 2010
• Dewey: 339.47

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Business & Investing › Marketing & Sales › Consumer Behavior
• Books › Business & Investing › Popular Economics