We scour the internet to find the most interesting news on the collaborative consumption front. Here are our picks for the week:

We must unleash the sharing economy to help drive living standards

Allister Heath, The Telegraph

Digital revolution allows people to rent far more goods than used to be possible, ensuring that they only pay for what they actually use.

The incentive problem at the heart of peer-to-peer lending

Matt Philips, Quartz

Shares of Lending Club, the largest US peer-to-peer lender, soared more than 50% in their debut today on the New York Stock Exchange.

The complicated politics of Uber

Aliyah Frumin, MSNBC

In recent months, the Republican Party has sought to capitalize on the mounting political battles between local governments and car-for-hire services like Uber and Lyft. Several conservatives have pointed to the free-market, sharing-economy approach to trumpet the party’s lower-regulation, starve-the-government message, and as a way to woo younger, tech-savvy voters.

Your Company’s Future Depends On Sharing

Jeff Dachis, Techcrunch

Sharing economy’s implications are further reaching than peer-to-peer models hitting the market at breakneck speed.

The companies that understand that consumers live in a technology-enabled, auto-sharing universe and focus their entire organizations on this reality will evolve, prosper and leave their competitors behind in the dust.