Re: (tears) The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pene du Bois

James Nicoll wrote:

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pene du Bois
 How did Professor William Waterman Sherman, late of San Francisco,
end up floating in the North Atlantic on a raft composed of the
wreckage of a flotilla of balloons?
 https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/west-of-java
 

The first novel to feature the supply-and price relationship that I read was Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer", in which a huge gold strike had reduced the price of the metal to the point that gold reserves became essentially worthless.
William Hyde