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How Uber money dominates and distorts economic research on ride-hailing platforms

December 9, 2017 Leave a comment Go to comments

from Norbert Häring

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  1. Rob
    December 12, 2017 at 5:40 pm
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    Some economists are clearly nothing more than propaganda pushing BS peddlers bought and paid for by corporate overlords. Greed is their only motivating emotion as they push ideology and corporate propaganda as the “science” of economics. They are like intellectual rot that eventually undermined the entire edifice of economics. No wonder the common man or women in the street no longer trust the “experts.”

  2. Edward Ross
    December 12, 2017 at 9:37 pm
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    Spot on Rob well said.

  3. Risk Analyst
    December 12, 2017 at 10:31 pm
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    UC Davis (Clewlow and Mishra) posted a paper in Oct. 2017 (“Disruptive Transportation: …”) on ride sharing that seems to have not benefitted from any help from Uber or others for their data. It has some negative things to say, such as that perhaps half of such rides are wasted because without ridesharing, the trip would not have happened or would have been just been walked or similar. The point being, in those cases the ridesharing increased traffic.

    • Rob Reno
      December 25, 2017 at 7:42 pm
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      Thanks for the citation Risk Analyst.

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