Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T14:25:26.405Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2019

Shelly Kreiczer-Levy
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy
Affiliation:
College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel
Get access

Summary

The introduction discusses the changes in consumers' preferences and the symbolic and practical decline of ownership. Young consumers, especially millennials, prefer experiences over things, comfort and ease of use over ownership. It then presents the sharing economy phenomenon, renames it "the access economy" and introduces the main argument of the book: the sharing economy pushes for a mobile and flexible vision of engaging with possessions and, as a result, with other people. It then places this argument within the broader context of property discourse.

Keywords

accesssharing economystabilityconsumptionminimalismmillennialsownership
Type
Chapter
Information
Destabilized Property
Property Law in the Sharing Economy
 , pp. 1 - 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×