Resting on the porn couch, popping potato pimples, and driving the electron autobahn.
They really missed an opportunity with the headline. Should have been "mauled by furry"!
This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following question: How should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved.
While most of Paul Krugman's works are nonsense, at least this is entertaining nonsense!
It should be noted that, while the subject of this paper is silly, the analysis actually does make sense. This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
So much for room temperature superconductivity, again. But at least we know why it acts the way it does.