Is Renting the New Buying?

The case for renting is made in two new books—What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers, and The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing, by Lisa Gansky—that were recently reviewed in The Economist. The auto industry illustrates the trend. Zipcar famously disrupted the standard car rental model by [...]

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