Re: Economic meltdowns in SF

Mark_Reichert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 <Mark_Reichert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I know I should be avoiding reality here, but given the implications
>of Bear Stearns if the other investment banks are just as ridiculously
>leveraged, I was wondering what SF stories have which SF stories have
>had economic bad times as background and which have actually dealt
>with the economics as subject material.

Besides the Foundation series, you mean? I'm remembering vaguely something
about a Laumer story, but not a Retief one, where the current
crisis-of-the-
moment was that the economy was collapsing, aided by the protagonist's
efforts to stop it from doing so... and I know there's at least a couple
fantasy-type stories where the warring kingdoms are doing so on economic
terms rather than manpower, but details are not surfacing for me right
now.

Dave
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