The Second Machine Age — Brynjolfsson & McAfee (2014)

MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's The Second Machine Age argues that digital technology is creating a second industrial revolution in which machines are replacing not just physical labour but cognitive labour at a rapidly accelerating pace. Their analysis of why GDP growth and employment are decoupling — and what it means for inequality, education, and policy — remains the clearest economic analysis of the labour market impacts of AI.