The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics
By Emad MostaqueA Guide to the Age of Intelligent EconomicsAbout this book
Summary
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.Book information
Rating
★★★★★ (4.8) (20)
Genre
Business and Economics, Technology
Length
3 hrs 53 mins
Publish date
Aug 22, 2025
Language
English
About the Author
Emad Mostaque
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?