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Mitchison, Naomi. Not By Bread Alone

Naomi Mitchison, Not By Bread Alone (1983). Mitchison's entry in SFE. Review by Kate Macdonald.

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Labels: basic needs, counterperformativity, development, dystopia, ecological economics, food economics, land, M, Mitchison, unintended consequences

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Robin Hanson's The Economics of Science Fiction, a collection of articles

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At io9, Abhimanyu Das and Charlie Jane Anders, Post-Scarcity Societies (That Still Have Scarcity)

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