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Sarah Shoker on Economics in Fantasy Literature, or, Why Nerds Really Like Stuff at The Hooded Utilitarian

TV Tropes
Androids and Assets podcast

Unions and organising in science fiction

Jared's "business in SF/fantasy" thread at Pornokitsch

Solarpunk: a reference guide

Interview at the Adjacent Possible

Discuss Doughnut Economics

Economic Science Fiction seminar series at Edgeryders

Noahpinion's list of Science Fiction Novels for Economists

Paul Krugman: More Science fiction for Economists

Tim Worstall: Science Fiction and Fantasy to Learn Economics from

In Clarkesworld, Jeremy L. C. Jones interviews six speculative fiction authors (Elizabeth Bear, N. K. Jemisin, Dani Kollin, Brian Francis Slattery, Charlie Stross, and John C. Wright) about economics

Paul Krugman and Charles Stross in conversation

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

A great big long discussion of worldbuilding and economics

Manu Saadia, Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek (2016)

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

Crooked Timber

At Metafilter, a thread on economic science fiction

Tim Reutemann's inspirations for Liquid Reign

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