This course explores science fiction, the 20th and 21st century genre devoted to projecting possible futures, to try to push back against what Mark Fisher calls "capitalist realism," the assumption that there is no alternative to capitalism.  The course covers science fiction that ranges from the libertarian right to the anarchist and communist left, focusing on the texts that extrapolate alternate economies from their capitalist presents.  Conversely, students also read economic theory as speculative fiction, focusing on acts of "world reduction" (Jameson) that science fiction writers and neoclassical economists use to strip away the complexities of real economic systems as a first step towards imagining other worlds.  Some of the topics discussed include: homo economicus and other human species, alternative currencies, debt Jubilee, gift economies, feminist and queer economies, health care as commodity, neoliberalism, anarcho-capitalism, and high-tech Communism.