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For the purposes of this discussion, the sharing economy is defined specifically as, “<em>consumers granting temporary access to under-utilized physical assets (‘idle capacity’), possibly for money.”</em> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2015/may/20/smarter-regulation-for-the-sharing-economy" target="_blank">Frenken et al. (2015)</a>.