Sharing Economy – a Challenge of the 21st Century?

• Authors: Peterka Pavel , Soběhart Radek , Jílková Jiřina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The objective of the study is to point out the growing importance of sharing economy within the current discussion about the development of advanced economies after the economic crisis between 2008-2009. The study focuses on determining the growing importance of sharing economy in the context of GDP, growth factors of sharing economy in current conditions, and social benefit function of sharing economy. The study also focuses on other sharing economy challenges of the 21st century that are connected to the overall change in human behavior, growth of importance of modern technologies for everyone, trying to lower transaction costs, and increasing the quality of life of all households. The study’s conclusion aims at summarizing the importance of sharing economy for modern society in advanced economies.

Keywords

EN

sharing economy; GDP; transaction costs

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
• Journal: Littera Scripta
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 155-169

Dates

published

2018-06-29

Contributors

author

Peterka Pavel

• Jan Evanglista Purkyně University

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Soběhart Radek

• Jan Evanglista Purkyně University

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Jílková Jiřina

• Jan Evanglista Purkyně University