LEADER 03997oam 22005414a 450 001 9910973304903321 005 20240508014853.0 010 $a9781906897734 010 $a1906897735 010 $a9781906897741 010 $a1906897743 035 $a(CKB)4100000004818487 035 $a(OCoLC)1035456541 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66524 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5382570 035 $a(PPN)23414906X 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88865682 035 $a(FRCYB88865682)88865682 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004818487 100 $a20171019d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEconomic Science Fictions /$fedited by Will Davies 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDistributed by the MIT Press$d2018 210 $aCambridge, Masschusetts $cGoldsmiths Press$d2018 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a9781906897680 311 08$a1906897689 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEconomics, 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 Murchu? -- 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 encyclopedia of luddism / Miriam Cherry -- Public money and democracy / Joseph Walton. 330 $a"Economics and science fiction rarely have much to do with each other. As a discipline, economics is far removed from creative writing. Science fiction arguably tells us little about the reality of day-to-day capitalism. Economic Science Fictions challenges and changes that. By treating our economy as a series of 'fictions' - stories and expectations regarding the future - and treating science fiction-writing as a means of anticipating different economic futures, this book offers various imaginative and surprising new syntheses. It brings together social science with fiction-writing; critique of everyday economic life with visions of alternatives; design with politics; utopias with dystopias; and academic scholarship with new styles of writing. Rooted in a sense that contemporary 'economic reality' is no longer working and no longer credible, it explores how we might draw on imagination and the inherent uncertainty of the future, both to revitalise economic thinking, and to re-imagine the present. This book will appeal to those working in cultural studies, creative writing, sociology, political economy and history of economic thought. Above all, it provides fresh and unusual perspectives for anyone who believes that the economy is too important to be left to the dry technicalities of economics" --$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aTime and economic reactions 606 $aEconomic forecasting 615 0$aTime and economic reactions. 615 0$aEconomic forecasting. 676 $a330.9001/12 702 $aDavies$b William$f1976- 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 801 2$bAzTeS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973304903321 996 $aEconomic Science Fictions$92653252 997 $aUNINA