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Overthinkingit Podcast - "To boldly go, and so forth"
Prince and the econ of star trek


Refugee phone
Send your old iPhone/android to refugees in Europe


More Heat Than Light
Mirowski on the history of economic science


Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchild
The classic Keynes text, with leading economists' comments


Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner's classic. Overpopulation, megacorps & networks


What's wrong with a free lunch
Basic income and post-scarcity


Use of Weapons
Greatest Iain M. Banks' Culture novel: post-scarcity econ


Noon: 22nd Century
Russian forerunners to Iain Banks' Culture Universe


Venus Equilateral
The first replicator ever!


Asimov's Foundation Trilogy
Introduction by Paul Krugman


Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
How will humanity survive mass extinction


Five Billion Years of Solitude
the search for life among the stars by SciAm Lee Billings


The Climate Casino
Economic modeling of long term global warming effects


Governing the Commons
How to manage public goods and common resources


The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death
Robert Fogel's masterwork on humanity's progress


Trekonimics
The economics of Star Trek: how do we get there?