Not long before the end? SF and the economics of resource scarcity
The commodity price booms of the early 1970s and of 2006–2014 were both associated with predictions of devastating scarcity of key natural resources, in popular media as well as in science fiction. However, both price booms ended within a few years for largely similar reasons, linked to the economic...
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Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Fafnir |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.finfar.org/articles/not-long-before-the-end-sf-and-the-economics-of-resource-scarcity/ |