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If this sort of thing fascinates you as it does me, you might be interested in the latest Charles Stross book that features relatavistic finance as a major plot point. Here's a preview chapter: http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/06/neptunes-brood-excerpt

Mr. Krugman himself thinks it's "the best thing by far written on the subject to date" (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/the-theory-of-in...)

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> Mr. Krugman himself thinks it's "the best thing by far written on the subject to date"

I'm a big fan of Charles Stross, but it may be worth pointing out that Krugman goes on to say that this is partly because it's the only thing written on the subject to date.

(In particular, he's distinguishing "interstellar finance" as in Neptune's Brood from "interstellar trade" as in his own earlier paper.)

This book is the first thing I though of reading this.

I don't know about the viability of the sort of economy Charles Stross uses in this book, but I found it refreshingly thought through. Might also be worth noting that he goes into some interesting concepts with regards to cryptocurrencies.

If it's anything like the Family Trade series of books then the economic or financial subject may only be used to colour the main plot and give a mood. I don't expect the author to actually be a "hard-economic" author like Stefan Baxter is a hard-science author.

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