The Economics of Garbage Collection (2011) [pdf]

This would make a good addition to the related-work section: http://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers/ie/i... from 1988.

Using a similar analogy in the opposite direction: http://countercomplex.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-resource-leak-... and discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679471

I just read underworld by Don delillo