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The Cold Cash War
Book • 1977
Robert Asprin's The Cold Cash War imagines a future where corporations supplant traditional nation-states and resolve their conflicts through simulated engagements to avoid damaging profitable infrastructure.
The novel examines how corporate incentives shape warfare, ethics, and human cost when profit logic governs violence.
It contrasts the elite's comforts with the broader social degradation that persists despite access to advanced resources.
Asprin later shifted to lighter, comedic fantasy, but this earlier work remains noted for its hard-edged critique of corporate power and militarized capitalism.
The story explores how economic imperatives can hollow political institutions and warp human relations.
The novel examines how corporate incentives shape warfare, ethics, and human cost when profit logic governs violence.
It contrasts the elite's comforts with the broader social degradation that persists despite access to advanced resources.
Asprin later shifted to lighter, comedic fantasy, but this earlier work remains noted for its hard-edged critique of corporate power and militarized capitalism.
The story explores how economic imperatives can hollow political institutions and warp human relations.
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61. Economist Paul Krugman / Economics in Science Fiction (with Sarah Brand)
