Research Hypothesis of Sharing Economy

Abstract

Any theoretical economics has its own basic premise and assumptions, as well as its own deductive process and reasoning logic (Zhang & Yan, 2009). Nowadays, scholars are paying more and more attention to the research theme of the sharing economy. Although there are more and more relevant research results, most of them still focus on case analysis and phenomenon summary, to systematically share the economy from the perspective of theory. It is necessary to explore the research hypothesis of sharing economy. As an inheritance and development of Marxist political economy and Western economies, sharing economy has its own research hypothesis and inheritance. By combing relevant literature and linking economic practices of the sharing economy, the book attempts to propose the following six hypotheses: human social hypothesis, human super rationality hypothesis, information non-equilibrium hypothesis, incomplete contract hypothesis, property separable hypothesis, and massive resources assumptions. By explaining relevant hypotheses, this chapter paves the way for the analysis of sharing economy in the following chapters.