Neoliberalism and the legality of peer platform markets
| Autor: | Derek McKee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050502 law
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Neoliberalism (international relations) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING Context (language use) Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Principle of legality Renting Sharing economy State (polity) 0502 economics and business Economics Economic system business 050203 business & management Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 0505 law media_common Law and economics |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 23:105-113 |
| ISSN: | 2210-4224 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eist.2017.04.001 |
| Popis: | Online platforms for rentals and services raise difficult legal issues. Nevertheless, some commentators have been quick to dismiss these issues or to argue that the laws themselves are the problem. This article traces the intellectual sources of these responses. It argues that these sources can generally be identified with neoliberalism, including its description of markets as both spontaneous and institutionally constructed as well as a distinction between laws that provide infrastructure for markets and laws that interfere with markets. Cyberlibertarianism and “sharing economy” discourse also play a role. However, there are flaws in these theoretical premises and in their application in this context. While there exist sound bases for critiques of certain regulatory regimes, the assumption that the platforms are, on the whole, more freedom-enhancing and more efficient than state regulation cannot be sustained. Nor can it be assumed that the benefits of these markets will be widely distributed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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