Hello @jake, welcome!
Some lucky students, eh? Your course seems like great fun, good on you (and them)! Looking through your syllabus, I am honored by the inclusion of my post, and intrigued by your “the material world” heading. Can you explain the logic for bundling a discussion on (artificial) scarcity with one on feminism? And what is the role of Parable of the Sower?
Also: for the social credit-oriented part of the course, I would recommend considering Numbercaste by @yudhanjaya. It is well researched and well written. What matters most for you, it draws a credible trajectory from the existing financial credit scores and the companies that maintain them, all the way to a much more comprehensive, disturbing future system (the trajectory goes through Startupland, with its usual array of Valley VC types and tech reporters, and, less intuitively, the United Nations). Bonus points: the characters who are building the system believe they are “the good guys”, and make pretty good arguments that the system they are trying to replace is dysfunctional anyway.
Also: I did not know that Krugman had crossed blades with Stross! Do you have a reference? Also, do you have a reference for the K.S. Robinson manuscript commenting The dispossessed? They would make a fine addition to the wiki.
Something that might interest you or your students is that in the next month we will be starting work on the Worldbuilding Academy. This is a participatory effort to create an open source Worldbuilding Bible (aka Worldbuilding Canon); a description of an imaginary world that authors could set novels (or films, or games…) in, and that contains one or more economic systems different from our own. We are scheduling a webinar on what the core team is doing.