This page is a list of most of my writing and editorial work around economics and SFF.
'Public Money and Democracy' is a chapter in Economic Science Fictions, ed. Will Davies (2018). It's a vignette and a commentary, which together explore where money comes from, and also reflect on the use of speculative fiction as a critical tool. It's also a little bit about journalism and incentive design.
A substantial interview with Rick Liebling at The Adjacent Possible (2018).
An afterword for Strange Economics, ed. David Shultz (2018), an anthology of economic-themed science fiction and fantasy. It explores how economics itself sometimes operates like speculative fiction.
With Polina Levontin, I co-edited a special issue of Vector (#288) on the theme of economics and speculative fiction.
'Public Money and Democracy' is a chapter in Economic Science Fictions, ed. Will Davies (2018). It's a vignette and a commentary, which together explore where money comes from, and also reflect on the use of speculative fiction as a critical tool. It's also a little bit about journalism and incentive design.
There's a chapter on speculative fiction and postcapitalism (including 'critical' vs. 'blueprint' utopias) in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics.
There's an academic article on entrepreneurs and reputation in Cory Doctorow in Foundation 137.
And (with Liz Stainforth) an academic article on AI, cybernetics and economic planning in Ursula Le Guin and Matthew de Abaitua in Science Fiction Studies 46(3).
A chapter on wellbeing measurement will appear in the Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities.
A chapter on money in speculative fiction by US writers will be in Money in American Literature and Culture.
A substantial interview with Rick Liebling at The Adjacent Possible (2018).
An afterword for Strange Economics, ed. David Shultz (2018), an anthology of economic-themed science fiction and fantasy. It explores how economics itself sometimes operates like speculative fiction.
With Polina Levontin, I co-edited a special issue of Vector (#288) on the theme of economics and speculative fiction.
'Wages for Dreamwork' suggests that maybe we should be paid for dreaming? If not, is that consistent with what we do think deserves payment? It's also more generally about quantification and dreaming. Another version of it will appear as an afterword to a poetry anthology about insomnia ed. Sam Ladkin.
There is quite a bit of economics in the Communicating Climate Risk toolkit that I co-authored with Polina Levontin and others, and a little bit of speculative fiction.
Fiction-wise, there is 'Froggy Goes Piggy' (2016) at the Long+Short, which thinks a bit about crowdfunding and finance visualisation. There is also 'In Arms', a story about degrowth in the anthology Gross Ideas.
Just Speculating was a workshop / symposium I organised at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, in 2018. I printed extra of the nifty programme / zine, which I think I've still got copies of somewhere if you'd like one.
Just Speculating was a workshop / symposium I organised at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, in 2018. I printed extra of the nifty programme / zine, which I think I've still got copies of somewhere if you'd like one.
And this one's not about speculative fiction, but it is about storytelling, technology, and money: in 2022 I published an article about comparisons between Yapese stone money and Bitcoin (the short version: please don't make these comparisons).
