How Technology Transforms Jobs, Markets, Life, and Our Future
Discover the hidden economic forces reshaping our world. Written to be engaging and easy to follow, AI economics offers sharp insights into the incentives shaping AI and the digital economy—and the outcomes those incentives create.
Artificial intelligence isn't just changing technology—it's rewriting the rules of the economy. In AI Economics, economist Benjamin Shiller pulls back the curtain on the hidden ways algorithms, data, and automation are transforming everything from how we work and shop to how companies compete and governments regulate.
Drawing on over two decades of research and real-world examples, this book makes cutting-edge economic concepts accessible through engaging stories, counterintuitive insights, revealing what's really going on beneath the surface.
How companies use your data to charge you a different price than the person next to you—and what it means for fairness.
Which jobs will AI replace, which will it transform, and how can you prepare for either outcome?
You bought it, but do you really own it? The economics of disappearing content.
How AI might solve a 2000 year old education problem.
When AI is woven into everyday monitoring—on platforms, at work, and in public—it can shape what you pay for insurance, how you’re evaluated on the job, and which opportunities you’re offered.
Predictions grounded in economic theory about where AI and automation are really headed.