About This Book
How Progress Ends (2025) traces the fragile balance between chaos and order that drives technological advancement. It examines why this balance breaks down and how both America and China now risk the stagnation that comes when incumbents block disruptive innovation. Nations rise when they match the right system to the moment – and fall when they don't.
Who Should Read This?
- Historians exploring the long-term drivers of national economic destinies
- Policymakers crafting strategies for national innovation and industrial growth
- Business leaders navigating technological disruption and corporate stagnation
About the Author
Carl Benedikt Frey is an economic historian based in Oxford. His work centres on the relationship between technology, economic development, and the future of work. He is Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and is also the author of The Technology Trap.
