The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics
A Guide to the Age of Intelligent EconomicsBy Emad 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.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.8 (28)
GenreBusiness and Economics, Technology
Length3 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 22, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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
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