Hello Carlos Web,Thank you for the link.Tom R
From: "carlos web" <xxxxxx@mail.de>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 11:57:59 AM
Subject: [TML] (OT) The Theory of Interstellar Trade
On the economics of Traveller... this is a topic in which I will as a rule not comment because I am an economics prof, so I get enough of that in RL (disclaimer: I am a *micro*economist, not a *macro*economist, so it is not really my field anyway). However, I thought that the academically-oriented TMLers might enjoy reading a tongue-in-cheek research paper written by Nobel-prize-winner Paul Krugman titled "The Theory of Interstellar Trade" (I kid you not), written when he was a lowly assistant. The paper was eventually published in a serious journal (economists do have a sense of humor, sort of).If that does not work (not sure whether it is open access access), you can find the original typewritten paper here https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf and a more reader-friendly transcript here: http://www.standupeconomist.com/pdf/misc/interstellar.pdfThe paper assumes Einsteinian physics and no FTL travel, so it is not really Traveller-relevant. But still a good laugh or two. I especially like the quote "physicists are not as tolerant as economists of the practice of assuming difficulties away." Maybe that is why I like Traveller... but what are physicists doing here? :-p
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