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   "text": "Large decentralized networks such as national democracies do not make fundamental changes easily, because stability is their primary quality.",
   "abstract": "Large decentralized networks, like national democracies, don't make fundamental changes easily. Stability is their pri- mary quality.",
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   "text": "Path dependencies are a major obstacle to decentralizing institutions and businesses, because humans have psychological inertia and cling to familiar systems, especially those that have given them comfort in the past.",
   "abstract": "Path dependencies create a major obstacle to decentralizing our institutions and businesses. Humans have psychological inertia, and cling to any familiar system, but especially those that have given them comfort in the past.",
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   "text": "Path dependent institutional lock in loses its grip when agents can simulate the long run consequences of alternative institutional trajectories and migrate instantaneously to superior equilibria.",
   "abstract": "path-dependent lock-in effects—historically the most persistent source of institutional rigidity—lose their grip when agents can simulate the long-run consequences of alternative institutional trajectories and migrate instantaneously to superior equilibria",
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