“Say ‘friend’ and enter”… My name is Phillip Tussing. I am an economist teaching at Houston Community College in the United States. For the last couple of years I have been researching and writing a book on the macroeconomic systems embedded in classic science fiction, from the late nineteenth century until 1969, when Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. I have looked with an economic lens at socialist scifi, a Georgist scifi book, Heinlein’s early nearly-lost Social Credit-based book, early 20th century feminist science fiction, various books based on the genetic manipulation or evolution of humans, robots, Utopias, Dystopias, Proudhonian Mutualism, Conte’s Positivism, Libertarian scifi – the whole range.
My flavor would be somewhere between low theor and systematizing augur, I suppose. I’m not committed politically, though I don’t have much respect for full-fledged Socialism – I’m interested in what might actually work. I would be willing to help people with fundamentals, such as the likely incentives and consequences of a given model from my perspective, and possible fixes for failures of your system (every system has pretty big flaws).
I look forward to working with you!
