The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics

A Guide to the Age of Intelligent EconomicsEmad Mostaque

Length3h 53m

About this audiobook

Your economic life expectancy is shrinking. This is not a recession. It is a phase transition. Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and Intelligent Internet, calls it the Intelligence Inversion: AI turns human intellect into an abundant commodity, breaking systems built on scarcity. Profits reach records while purpose ebbs; the signal of a paradigm collapse. We have a Thousand-Day Window to choose among three futures: the comfort of Digital Feudalism, the fear of the Great Fragmentation, or the living partnership of Human Symbiosis. The Last Economy is a build plan for the third path. Drawing on physics, complexity, and computer science, Mostaque outlines systems that treat abundance as a feature and protect human agency at scale. In this world, worth decouples from economic utility. Value flows from creativity, judgment, and care. The work ahead is a civilization-scale software update that turns this blueprint into code, policy, and culture.

Artificial Intelligence

Futuristic

Dystopian

Survival

Political Intrigue

Thriller

Apocalypse

Psychological

Hopepunk

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★★ 4.8 (23)

GenreBusiness and Economics, Technology

Length3 hrs 53 mins

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FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateAug 22, 2025

LanguageEnglish

1The Last Economy

13Chapter 11: The Cathedral and the Bazaar 2.0

2Introduction: The Thousand-Day Window

14Chapter 12: Intelligent Game Theory

3Chapter 1: The Intelligence Inversion

15Chapter 13: The Dual Engine: The Rhythms of Change

4Chapter 2: Harbingers of the Storm

16Chapter 14: The Dream is Dead

5Chapter 3: The Seven Fatal Lies of a Dying Paradigm

17Chapter 15: The Alignment Economy: Who Commands the Machines?

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6Chapter 4: The Dashboard for Insanity: GDP and the Meaning Crisis

18Chapter 16: The Three Futures

7Chapter 5: The Trial by Fire

19Chapter 17: The Symbiotic state

8Chapter 6: The Engine of Order: Intelligence Against Entropy

20Chapter 18: Money for Two Worlds

9Chapter 7: The Generative Engine

21Chapter 19: The Nucleation of the New: A Strategy for Hope

10Chapter 8: The MIND of a Civilization

22Chapter 20: Intelligent Macroeconomics

11Chapter 9: The Three Flows: The Blind Scholars and the Elephant

23Chapter 21: After Economics

12Chapter 10: The Network Prison

24Epilogue: The Thousandth Day

About the author

Emad Mostaque

Emad Mostaque is founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet, building Bitcoin for the Intelligence Age and Universal AI for all. He founded Stability AI and introduced Stable Diffusion, an Open Source text-to-image model downloaded hundreds of millions of times, advocating an open, decentralized approach to AI. He spent 13 years as a hedge fund manager focused on global strategy and tech investments. His book, The Last Economy, outlines the coming “Intelligence Inversion.”View all by Emad Mostaque