Embedded Economics: v. 0.1
I have just webbed the first draft of the project I have been discussing here, a collection of short works of literature that contain economics with some brief comments by me. Most of the works are available online, so I could do it as a collection of links...

My European Speaking Trip
For people interested in attending, here is the list of the open talks: Gothenburg, Sweden, May 24, 18:00 CEST "A World of Strong Privacy: Anarcho-Capitalism Online" Allégården, Södra Allégatan 4, Gothenburg Facebook link    Stockholm, Sweden, May 25, 17:00...

Something Different. Or Maybe Not.
My younger son writes, among other things, fiction set in the world of super heroes and super villains. This morning he pointed me at someone else's work in that genre, a novella: Interviewing Leather . I read it. The narrator is a reporter working for a Ro...

Thoughts on Literature, Economics and Education
My recent posts here have dealt with my current project of putting together a book of short works of literature that have interesting economic ideas embedded in them. I've gotten suggestions both here and in response to emails that I sent to people who I th...

The Poor Man's Air Conditioning
It has been very hot in San Jose the last few days. One solution is air conditioning, which we have and sometimes use. The other is to open the windows in the evening, when it cools off, close them in the morning. Sometimes–last night, for instance–that coo...

Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
I have just webbed the latest draft of the book I have been writing. To give you a quick idea of what's there, here is the table of contents: Introduction 1.      Imperial Chinese Law 2.      Romani Law 3.      The Amish 4.      Jewish Law 5.      Islamic L...

The Most Exciting Maybe of the Year
A  link in a recent post on my favorite blog took me to a piece on a recent article from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. It describes a procedure which appears to reverse aging in mice. These are early results, they might be wrong, there migh...

Looking for Stories That Contain Interesting Economic Ideas

I am trying to put together a collection of short works of literature, mostly stories and poems, that contain economics--not pictures of an economy but ideas about the implications of rational choice. One of the first that occurred to me was "Margin of Profit" by Poul Anderson, whose central point is that, in order to stop someone from doing something you don't want him to do, you don't have to make it impossible, merely unprofitable, no longer in his interest.

I am not limiting myself to sf but sf seems a likely source of such stories, so I am putting up this post to see if other people have suggestions. For a description of the project and my current list, see:
http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2017/04/ideas-that-teach-economics-progress.html

Ideas That Teach Economics: Who Should I Ask?
At least since I successfully used this blog to get a design for the cover of the third edition of my first book, I have been intrigued with the idea of using the internet as a way of collecting ideas and information. My current project, described in my pre...