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Economic science fictions

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Economic science fictions
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An edition of Economic science fictions (2018)

Economic science fictions

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"Economics and science fiction rarely have much to do with each other. As a discipline, economics is far removed from creative writing. Science fiction arguably tells us little about the reality of day-to-day capitalism. Economic Science Fictions challenges and changes that. By treating our economy as a series of 'fictions' - stories and expectations regarding the future - and treating science fiction-writing as a means of anticipating different economic futures, this book offers various imaginative and surprising new syntheses. It brings together social science with fiction-writing; critique of everyday economic life with visions of alternatives; design with politics; utopias with dystopias; and academic scholarship with new styles of writing. Rooted in a sense that contemporary 'economic reality' is no longer working and no longer credible, it explores how we might draw on imagination and the inherent uncertainty of the future, both to revitalise economic thinking, and to re-imagine the present. This book will appeal to those working in cultural studies, creative writing, sociology, political economy and history of economic thought. Above all, it provides fresh and unusual perspectives for anyone who believes that the economy is too important to be left to the dry technicalities of economics"--

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English
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383

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Table of Contents

Economics, science fiction, history, and comparative studies / Ha-Joon Chang
Future incorporated? / Laura Horn
Currencies of social organization: the future of money / Sherryl Vint
Automating economic revolution: Robert Heinlein's The moon is a harsh mistress / Brian Willems
Feeding like a parasite anime: extraction and science fiction in capitalist dystopia / Carina Brand
Pain camp economics / AUDINT
AT392-red / Khairani Barokka
The new Black / Nora O Murchú
Fatbergs and sinkholes / Dan Gavshon Brady and James Pockson
Prefabricating communism: mass production and the Soviet city / Owen Hatherley
Megastructures, superweapons and global architectures in science fiction computer games / Mark R Johnson
Economic design fictions: finding the human scale / Bastien Kerspern
Valuing utopia in speculative and critical design / Tobias Revell et al.
Shooting the bridge: liminality and the end of capitalism / Tim Jackson
Speculative hyperstition at a northern further education college / Judy Thorne
The future encylopedia of luddism / Miriam Cherry
Public money and democracy / Joseph Walton.

Edition Notes

"Goldsmiths Press PERC series".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.9001/12
Library of Congress
HB3730 .E248 2018, HB171

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 383 pages
Number of pages
383

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26956337M
ISBN 10
1906897689
ISBN 13
9781906897680
LCCN
2017039951
OCLC/WorldCat
1002288296

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