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Mandel on Uber’s True Innovation

  • November 4, 2015
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

PPI’s Cheif Economic Strategist Michael Mandel was quoted by Sam Shead of Business Insider regarding the rise and impact of Uber:

Uber’s most significant innovation is not its widely-used taxi hailing app, an economist from a US think-tank said on Tuesday.

Speaking at the FT Innovate conference in London, Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington DC, suggested that ‘Uber’s real innovation has been in working with governments around the world’ where it has been ‘outstanding.’

Read the article in its entirety at Business Insider. 

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