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The Theory of Interstellar Trade

The Theory of Interstellar Trade is a paper written in 1978 by the economist Paul Krugman. The paper was first published in March 2010 in the journal Economic Inquiry. He described the paper as something he wrote to cheer himself up when he was an "oppressed assistant professor" caught up in the academic rat race.Krugman analyzed the question of


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“This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.”

Of his paper "The Theory of Interstellar Trade"; quoted in The Economist, 26 October 2013, p. 86

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