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<div><font face="Geneva"><b>Can Clinton or Trump Recapture Robust
American Growth?</b></font></div>
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/opinion/campaign-stops/can-clinton<span
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<div><font face="Geneva"><b>What's slowing growth? Sorry,
conservatives: It's not the size of governments</b></font></div>
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>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/08/whats-sl<span
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>owing-growth-sorry-conservatives-its-not-the-size-of-governments/?</font
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<div><font face="Geneva"><b>Fed's Powell warns US at risk of being
trapped in low growth</b></font></div>
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>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/30ffa69e-5c46-11e6-bb77-a121aa8abd95.html#<span
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"A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning
to call<i> social traps.</i> The term refers to situations in society
that contain traps formally like a fish trap, where men or whole
societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of
relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that
they see no easy way to back out of or to avoid."<br>
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John Platt. Social Traps.<i> American Psychologist</i>, August
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"Transitions between regimes with radically different properties
are ubiquitous in nature. Such transitions can occur either smoothly
or in an abrupt and catastrophic fashion. Important examples of the
latter can be found in ecology, climate sciences, and economics, to
name a few, where regime shifts have catastrophic consequences that
are mostly irreversible."<br>
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Paula Villa Martín, Juan A. Bonachel, Simon A. Levin, and Miguel A.
Muñoz. Eluding catastrophic shifts.<i> PNAS Early Edition</i>
www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1414708112</font><br>
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