Quote of the paper, '...and two useless but true theorems are proved.'
When I've stopped giggling, I'll read the rest of it.
David Shaw
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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