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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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