<story><title>Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Charles Stross has written at least two full-length novels that are, at their core, about interstellar economics:&lt;p&gt;- Neptune&amp;#x27;s Brood (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Neptune%27s_Brood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Neptune%27s_Brood&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;- Singularity Sky (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Singularity_Sky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Singularity_Sky&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjdesno</author><text>To understand the bogus funding acknowledgement, it helps to remember that this was written during the era of Proxmire&amp;#x27;s Golden Fleece awards, which picked random government-funded academic researchers and held them up for public ridicule based on highly slanted and selective descriptions of their research.</text></comment>