The Weinersmiths are still at it - talking communities in space. They're going with small-scale communes. If I were a Marxist (a good part of my economics is at least paraMarx) small communes would be how I'd scale it.
I suggest they trade amongst each other. Asteroid-to-asteroid, largescale cargo-transfer would work much like living on the asteroid itself. Hence why I keep harping on cyclers.
We might even have some work on microcargo over astronomical distances. Apparently no less than Paul Krugman (pdf) - back in 1978 - wrote a paper on trade over relativistic speeds. That would be microcargoes from Earth to some very distant colony; Krugman says "Trantor" but is clearly pondering Barnard's or αCen-C. One might ponder also a Kuiper colony, say on Eris. A central Federal Reserve Of Venus probably wouldn't be a thing - at least, we'd hope not.
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