Tom Slee writes about technology, politics, and economics and in the last three years has become a leading critic of the sharing economy. He has a PhD in theoretical chemistry, a long career in the software industry, and his book No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart is a game-theoretical investigation of individual choice that has been used in university economics, philosophy and sociology courses. He blogs at www.tomslee.net.
Selected praise for What’s Yours Is Mine
"As Tom Slee’s superbly argued book points out, the vast majority
of Airbnb’s business is now “entire home” rentals: self-contained
flats or villas. ....Slee performs some very clever data research
and finds out that the most expensive Airbnb apartment in Rome is
one of several European luxury pads rented out by an American tech
entrepreneur, who bought them with the proceeds of the sale of his
last software company." —The Guardian
"In What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy, Tom
Slee...delivers a smart and searing critique of a business that
people are only just beginning to think about in a serious way.
While some bloggers still treat the sharing economy as some kind of
cause, Slee rightly analyses it as a business model masquerading as
a movement." —The Spectator (UK)
"Slee is an extremely well-informed skeptic who presents a
satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech’s disingenuous
equating of sharing with profiteering." —Counterpunch
"In this lucid and rigorous book, Tom Slee dismantles the facade of
the sharing economy, revealing hidden and often troubling truths
about companies like Uber and Airbnb. If you want to understand how
internet businesses really operate, What’s Yours Is Mine is the
place to start." —Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The
Glass Cage
"In a field crowded with tech-utopian blowhards and app-happy snake
oil salesmen, Tom Slee stands apart. His laser-sharp insights about
the real impact of popular start-ups on our livelihoods and
communities are the perfect antidote to sharing economy hype.
What’s Yours Is Mine is required reading for anyone interested in
technology and economic justice." —Astra Taylor, author of The
People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital
Age
"Tom Slee's essential new book shows that the sharing economy has
very little to do with sharing. Slee uses wit, clarity, and facts
to demolish the self-serving mythologies of Silicon Valley
entrepreneurs and figure out what Uber, Amazon and their kind are
really up to." —Henry Farrell, co-chair, Social Science Research
Council's Digital Culture Initiative; professor of political
science and international affairs, George Washington University
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