[GZG] Theory of interstellar trade

Hello everybody

The economics of interstellar trade has occasionally been a topic of
discussion on this list.

Here is a contribution by a real economist:

http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

The author, Paul Krugman, now is an economics professor at Princeton and

an op-ed columnist for the New York Times.

To quote him: "Thirty years ago I was an oppressed assistant professor, caught
up in the academic rat race. To cheer myself up I wrote — well,

see for yourself. Joshua Gans of the University of Melbourne scanned a copy of
the thing I wrote — back then academics did their work with typewriters,
abacuses, and stone axes — and was good enough to send me a copy. Ladies and
gentlemen, I give you The Theory of Interstellar Trade."

Be warned, he 'only' discusses relativistic (i.e.non-FTL) trade in
economic theory terms, so it is 'heavy going' in every sense of that phrase.

Enjoy.

Greetings Karl Heinz

> K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

There are some other contributions here, which may not be by real economists
but are still worth reading:

http://www.costik.com/inttrade.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lyonesse/startrade.htm