Economics for SF Researchers & Writers

A reading list of economics-related titles that may be of interest to researchers working in Science Fiction Studies and/or science fiction writers:

Journals / Series

• Journal of Cultural Economy
• Ecological Economics
• International Journal of Green Economics
• The Real Utopias Project, Vol. 1-6 🔥

Books

• Georg Simmel, The Philosophy of Money (1900)
• Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (1913)
• Max Weber, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (1922)
• Marcel Mauss, The Gift (1925)
• Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942)
• Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944)
• Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers (1953)
• Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
• Joan Robinson, Economic Philosophy (1962)
• John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Persuasion (1963)
• Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities (1969)
• Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970)
• Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism (1972)
• Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (1972)
• James S. Albus, Peoples' Capitalism: The Economics of the Robot Revolution (1976)
• Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)
• Jean Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (1981)
• Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life (1981)
• Deirdre McCloskey, The Rhetoric of Economics (1985)
• Barbara Bergmann, The Economic Emergence of Women (1986)
• Sara Roy, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development (1987)
• Margaret Levi, Of Rules and Revenue (1988)
• J. Parry and M. Bloch (ed.), Money and the Morality of Exchange (1989)
• Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990) 🔥
• Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel, Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century (1991)
• Caroline Humphrey and Stephen Hugh-Jones (ed.), Barter, Exchange and Value (1992)
• Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell, Towards a New Socialism (1993)
• Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-Of-The-Way Place (1993)
• Viviana Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, & Other Currencies (1994)
• Marguerite Young, Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias (1994)
• Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (1994)
• Jane Humphries, Gender and Economics (1995)
• Farhad Nomani and Ali Rahnema, Islamic Economic Systems (1995)
• T.G. Rawski, Economics and the Historian (1996)
• Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (1996)
• Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State (1996)
• Diana Wynne-Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (1996)
• Theodor Adorno, Can One Live After Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader (1997)
• Susana Narotzky, New Directions in Economic Anthropology (1997)
• Susan Strange, Mad Money (1998)
• Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999)
• Marilyn Waring, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth (1999)
• Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen, New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics (1999)
• Deirdre McCloskey ed. by Stephen Ziliak, Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey (1999) 🔥
• Witold Kula, The Problems and Methods of Economic History (2001)
• Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism (2001)
• Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (2001) 🔥
• Carlota Perez, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (2002)
• Lourdes Benería, Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered (2003)
• David Harvey, Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason (2017)
• Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics (2004)
• Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought (2005)
• Julie A. Nelson, Economics for Humans (2006)
• Elspeth Brown, Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business Culture, 1877-1960 (2006)
• Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
• Joyce Jacobsen and Adam Zeller, Queer Economics: A Reader (2007)
• Diane Coyle, The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters (2007)
• Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) 🔥
• Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2008)
• Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology (2008) 
• Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (2009)
• Nancy Folbre, Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (2009)
• Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer (2009)
• Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (2009)
• Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity (2010)
• Francis Spufford, Red Plenty (2010)
• Juliet B. Schor, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (2010)
• Viviana Zelizer, Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy (2010) 🔥
• David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital (2010)
• Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (2010)
• David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011) 🔥
• Louis Brennan, Alessandra Vecchi, The Business of Space: The Next Frontier of International Competition (2011)
• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
• Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, HumAnimal: Race, Law, Language (2012)
• Eric D. Smith, Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (2012)
• Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2012)
• Irene Aldridge, High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Guide to Algorithmic Strategies and Trading Systems (2013)
• Mary Morgan, The World and the Model: How Economists Work and Think (2013)
• Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century (2013)
• Brett Scott, The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (2013) 🔥
• Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013)
• Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide (2013) 🔥
• Anna Grandori, Epistemic Economics and Organization: Forms of Rationality and Governance for a Wiser Economy (2013)
• Diane Coyle, GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History (2014)
• Nigel Dodd, The Social Life of Money (2014) 🔥
• Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (2014)
• Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2015)
• Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (2015)
• Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, Inventing the Future (2015)
• Will Davies, Johanna Montgomerie, and Sara Walin, Financial Melancholia: Mental Health and Indebtedness (2015)
• Andrekos Varnava, Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias (2015)
• Melanie Swan, Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy (2015)
• Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (2015)
• Manu Saadia, Trekonomics (2016) 🔥
• Douglas Rushkoff, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus (2016)
• Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2016)
• Janelle Knox-Hayes, The Cultures of Markets: The Political Economy of Climate Governance (2016)
• Stuart J. Smyth and José Falck-Zepeda, Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation (Natural Resource Management and Policy (2016)
• Ram S. Jakhu, Joseph N. Pelton, Yaw Otu Mankata Nyampong, Space Mining and Its Regulation (2016)
• Julian Guthrie, How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight (2017)
• Joseph F. Coughlin, The Longevity Economy: Inside the World's Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market (2017)
• Peter Frase, Four Futures (2017)
• Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2017)
• Ryan Kiggins, The Political Economy of Robots: Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century (2017)
• Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist (2017) 🔥
• Alexander MacDonald, The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War (2017)
• Winifred Curran and Trina Hamilton, Just Green Enough: Urban Development and Environmental Gentrification (2017)
• Ҫınla Akdere and Christine Baron (ed.), Economics and Literature: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Approach (2017)
• Will Davies (ed.), Economic Science Fiction (2018) 🔥
• Paulina Golinska, Logistics Operations and Management for Recycling and Reuse (2018)
• Julia Puaschunder, Governance and Climate Justice: Global South and Developing Nations (2018)
• Chrystia Freeland and Lawrence H Summers, The Post-Widget Society: Economic Possibilities for Our Children (2018)
• Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionise Work, and Remake the World (2018)
• Cheryl McEwan, Postcolonialism, Decoloniality, and Development (2018)
• Michelle Chihara and Matt Seybold, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics (2018)
• Mark Rifkin, Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation (2019)