Surge Pricing Will Kill Us All

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References (in rough order of appearance)

5 reasons everyone should love surge pricing Timothy B. Lee

What Money Can’t Buy - Michael Sandel

Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson

Dynamic Pricing in a Labor Market: Surge Pricing and Flexible Work on the Uber Platform – Chen and Sheldon

Technical Note on CS paper

Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply: The Case of New York City Taxi Drivers – Farber

Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange – Mackenzie and Milo

Freakonomics – Levitt and Dubner

Uber’s secret weapon is its team of economists - Alison Griswold

Surge Pricing and Short-term Wage Elasticity of Labor Supply in Real-Time Ridesharing Markets – He et al

End State - James Plunkett

The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford

Is surge pricing a fair way to manage demand? -Tim Harford

Fair Pricing - Rotemberg

‘Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet’ - Odlyzko

The Efficient Queue and The Case Against Surge Pricing - Woodcock

Generating equality and eliminating poverty, the Swedish way – Bkorjlund and Freeman