Nobel prize winning economist and NYT‘s columnist, Paul Krugman expresses his love for sci-fi and fantasy in an interview for Wired magazine.
Krugman cites Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation as his inspiration for becoming an economist, a damned responsible one at that: “‘I read [Isaac Asimov’s] Foundation back when I was in high school, when I was a teenager and thought about the psychohistorians, who save galactic civilization through their understanding of the laws of society, and I said ‘I want to be one of those guys.’ And economics was as close as I could get.’”
Sci-fi’s game of world-building, world-saving, and prefiguring reality with its highly logical imaginative scope grabbed Krugman and many of our other local neighborhood economists, including many of the writers of Crookedtimer.org, a political blog who’s first page hosts a lively discussion of a socialist literary novel!
