Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade

Details Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade

Jan 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008astpo...6...95h&link_type=abstract

Astropolitics, vol. 6, issue 1, pp. 95-104

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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If and when interplanetary and interstellar trade develops, it will be novel in two respects. First, the distances and time spans involved will reduce all or nearly all trade to the exchange of intangible goods. That threatens the possibility of conducting business in a genuinely common currency and of enforcing debt agreements, especially those involving sovereign debt. Second, interstellar trade suggests trade between humans and aliens. Cultural distance is a probable obstacle to initiating and sustaining such trade. Such exchange also threatens the release of new and potentially toxic memes.

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