Private, non-agricultural productivity growth has behaved oddly during this business cycle.

ECONOMIST: Too triumphalist by half

All of this is true, just as it is also the case that the diplomatic factors that made UN Security Council Resolution 1973 possible - allowing air strikes against Libya - were very unusual, relying largely on the fact that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has behaved so oddly for so many years that he is pretty much friendless.

BBC: UN Syria failure shows declining power of the West