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Seeking a pair of stories about an idealist who discovers that winning a revolution doesn't change the stark economic facts
Sometime around the late 1980s, I checked out a science fiction anthology from a library. (The stories were written in English.) I don't remember if all the stories were by the same author, but two of ...
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Looking for a novel of "economic science fiction" that deals with rebellion on the moon
Somewhere around the late 1980s I read a paperback novel which fell into what I would call "the unusual category of economic science fiction." I think I found the book in my grandfather's home, but he ...
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Identify a short story where economics is about the creation of scarce (and horrible) goods
I am having trouble identifying a short story that I have read a while ago. It is about the definition of economics in a future where all necessary goods are abundant/readily available. The story is ...
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One person constructs a building, another tears it down, unaware of each other
I heard a synopsis of this story in the early 2000s.
The story is set on a different world, one that has two suns. The suns may have been of different colour. While the first sun is up, the people ...
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Plutonium in currency?
Trying to think of where I read this - there was a society that put actual plutonium in the coinage, as a means to encourage people not to be too greedy; if one hoarded too many coins, they'd go ...
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