Time for a change from Donald Duck.

As I am reading through economics papers for uni I stumbled across this, for example: " Adrian Wood, Chief Economist for DfID, envisions a “hollowed out” Africa, with most of the population on the coasts where they could more effectively produce manufactured exports (Wood, 2002)." or the idea that countries should produce and only produce goods that they got a comparative advantage for.
While that doesn't sound too exciting, I think this could be a good source for books describing a future, dark world with radical changes to and through economy and therefore influence on people's lives. Think of how the political system in 1984 affects people's lives - not trying to say this would be anything similar, just to give you an idea what sort of worlds I mean. Does anybody know any books into that direction?