History's Most Revolutionary Innovation

AI and Its Origins and Impact

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

679 kr

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In History's Most Revolutionary Innovation, Victor Menaldo shows that America's AI dominance was not an accident of entrepreneurial culture or free markets. It was engineered - through four decades of bipartisan reforms to intellectual property, antitrust, telecommunications, and trade policy that quietly built the legal and economic scaffolding the digital economy required. Situating AI within the lineage of previous general purpose technologies like steam engines, electricity, and the microchip, and tracing its full arc from semiconductors to smartphones to large language models, Menaldo shows how a handful of dominant firms simultaneously captured outsized returns and spread innovation across global supply chains - and asks what happens now that the US, China, and the EU are retreating into competing, gated technology regimes. The result is the first comprehensive account of where AI came from, why its benefits have been uneven, and what will determine whether the AI revolution lifts living standards.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-31
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009882903

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Victor Menaldo is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington and is the Co-founder of the UW Political Economy Forum. His research spans the political economy of institutions, regulation, global supply chains, IP, and innovation. He is a leading expert on the nexus of industrial revolutions, capitalism, and technological change. He's the author of The Institutions Curse (CUP, 2016), Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy (CUP, 2017), and US Innovation Inequality and Trumpism (CUP, 2025).

List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1. A Fourth Industrial Revolution?; Chapter 2. What's an Industrial Revolution?; Chapter 3. The Creative Destruction Paradigm; Chapter 4. Superstar Dynamics; Chapter 5. High Tech Superstar, Industry Tech Leaders; Chapter 6. Smartphone Supply Chain & Interoperability; Chapter 7. AI's Antitrust Seedbed; Chapter 8. Digital Platforms, Data Flywheels; Chapter 9. Industrial Organization of the AI Stack; Chapter 10. AI Standardization & Organizational Adaptation; Chapter 11. Macroeconomics of AI; Chapter 12. The Fragmented Revolution; Bibliography; Index.