Reddit reviews Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects

yes. you should read this book for perspective on what happened when the Soviet Union collapsed. .. basically people got up the next morning and went about their daily lives as best they could, but their culture was VERY different from what we have in the US (they were already used to hardship, already farmed, etc). The book talks about using vodka and gasoline for bartering... one of the best things for bartering throughout history has been some form of alcohol. Other things like toilet paper, light bulbs, motor oil, etc.. stuff you'll use anyway and won't go bad.. are also a good thing to stock up on in case of natural disaster or societal collapse. If nothing bad happens, you just use the stuff.

and yes, inflation will impact things like whiskey, vodka, etc.

Dude has a book coming out soon

Orlov has some decent theories on how the US will be quite different from Agentina and Russia though. But even he stresses that even if the US government collapsed people would get up and go to work the next morning. Life goes on.. people want normalcy and they'll work hard to get back to it.

I like this. Seems solid. I also keep meaning to read this book, since it has some actual accounts from the closest thing to a big, prolonged collapse we've seen in recent history. There are probably some good lessons to be learned there.

Somebody's been reading Reinventing Collapse.

He's turned it into a book now.

http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Collapse-Example-American-Prospects/dp/0865716064/