Depression or Bust
| Title | Depression or Bust |
| Year for Search | 1974 |
| Authors | Reynolds, Mack [Dallas McCord](1917-83) |
| Date Published | 1974 |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Satire on economic cycles. One man decides he can't afford the new freezer he bought and sends it back; the seller of the freezer cancels the new car he had ordered; the car dealer cancels the house he was to have built; and so forth. The economic downswing becomes a full-blown depression until the government gives money to the first man to start buying and the cycle is reversed. |
| Info Notes | Ace double bound with his Dawnman Planet (1966). |
| Holding Institutions | CU-Riv, NBeU |
| Author Note | (1917-83) |
| Full Text | 1974 Reynolds, Mack [Dallas McCord] (1917-83). Depression or Bust. New York: Ace Books. Bound with his Dawnman Planet (1966). Parts were originally published as “The Expert.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 8.1 (44) (January 1955): 45-52; “Expediter.” Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 71.3 (May 1963): 54-63; “Fad.” Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 75.2 (April 1965): 40-60; “Depression or Bust.” Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 79.6 (August 1967): 143-63; rpt. in his Compounded Interests (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1983), 61-86. CU-Riv, NBeU Satire on economic cycles. One man decides he can’t afford the new freezer he bought and sends it back; the seller of the freezer cancels the new car he had ordered; the car dealer cancels the house he was to have built; and so forth. The economic downswing becomes a full-blown depression until the government gives money to the first man to start buying and the cycle is reversed. |
