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Michael Munger on Sharing, Transaction Costs, and Tomorrow 3.0

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The Sears Catalog: A Platform for Reducing Transaction Costs

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Amazon is the Sears catalog of the 21st century because almost everything that Amazon sells is manufactured by someone else. The three things together there, triangulation, transfer, and trust, make Amazon a platform you can buy stuff from. It's not really set up for ownership or rental. They're renting all of the things that they need to provide this delivery service.

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