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Trekonomics

The Economics of Star Trek

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What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's imprint PiperText, approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward - through thinking about a universe where scarcity does not exist. Delving deep into the details and intricacies of 24th-century society, Trekonomics explores post-scarcity and whether we, as humans, are equipped for it. What are the prospects of automation and artificial intelligence? Is there really no money in Star Trek? Is Trekonomics at all possible?

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Critic Reviews

"Manu Saadia has managed to show us one more reason, perhaps the most compelling one of all, why we all need the world of Star Trek to one day become the world we live in." (Chris Black, writer and coexecutive producer, Star Trek: Enterprise)
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I was introduced to this book with a lens of economics in post-money world it is broader than that. The thread of post-money, post-scarcity continues through the book but it loops around aspects around culture, automations/ technology advances, psychotherapy and the heady mix it all makes and what we call as our world. Despite the book exploring a world 300 years in future and inter-galactic travels seems to be bounded by today and here, on earth only. It's as if, you dream of a dream destination but you end up telling yourself that home is good. While that itself is not bad, seems to have a slice of disappointment that peeks up every now and then.
Would I recommend it, surely yes.

It's a trek of its own

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I always wanted to read narratives in the trek economy, more in terms of fictional stories specially leading to the Captain Archer's flight since vulcans landed. that by and large is missing and this book is closed one can get to understand post scarcity world. Few insightful economy & currency aspects from various star trek episodes were nice to look back to but i was expecting much more. narrator was fantastic.

A good one time listen

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