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Cognitive Economics: How Artificial Intelligence Industrializes Thought and What That Costs Us
Author(s): Babu George (Author)
- Publication Date: 20 May 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 127 pages
- ISBN-10: B0GX2W2R9V
Book Description
The collapse of the marginal cost of cognition has begun reshaping economic life on a scale that compares with the Industrial Revolution, and most of the standard economic frameworks were not built to see it. Cognitive Economics names the emerging field that takes thought itself as an industrialized substrate. The book introduces a working vocabulary, including cognitive inflation, attention as reserve currency, epistemic liquidity, cognitive derivatives, reality-backed assets, and epistemic pollution, and uses these concepts to describe what is happening to professions, institutions, signals, and trust in a period of synthetic abundance. Drawing on a long career in management scholarship and on a careful reading of how earlier economic transitions actually unfolded, Babu George argues that the central scarcity of the twenty-first century is trustworthy cognition anchored to reality, and that the institutional work of the coming decades will be the work of protecting and pricing it.
